Inspired #41
When, how and why to use a shallow depth of field in landscape photography.
Hello and welcome to Inspired, a weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.
This week I want to talk about the final part of this months ‘power of two challenge’ - which covers aperture and depth of field. The challenge was to take two images from the same location using an aperture of F11 - F16 to ensure front to back sharpness and then take another shot wide open (F5.6 or wider) to create some selective focus and a shallow depth of field. This part of the challenge is not as easy as it sounds when looking at landscape photography and this week I wanted to discuss why.
