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eccs19
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 Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: DOF advice |
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eccs19 wrote:
The company I work for has asked me to re-do some of their pictures for their portfolio. I don't have any issues with doing any of them, but for one of the shots they want re-done, I'm looking for DOF advice. See attached picture. They want this re-done, but obviously they want to clean up the background, so it's less distracting. I know shooting wide or almost wide open will help blur the background, I'm just not sure what would work better, getting up close with a 28mm or 50mm, or stand back more and use my 100mm or 200mm. Thought?
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Esox lucius wrote:
55/1.8 at f/2.8 with tighter crop or your 105/2.8 at f/4 will clean out the background with blur.
P.S. http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
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Himself wrote:
50/1.4, 85/1.4, 200/2.8 |
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marty
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marty wrote:
Hi, there.
Definitely a short a tele will do what you need. Check DOF preview and see what looks best, below f8 will do.
Cheers, M.-
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peterqd wrote:
I feel I'd want to lower the shooting position slightly and it might help if you can hide the white doors behind the stone.
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hexi wrote:
I suggest a 50mm with aperture f2.8. Worx fine trust me 
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eccs19
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eccs19 wrote:
Thanks for all the advice. I think I'll try my 50mm or 55mm, and if time allows, I'll go back & try longer lenses.
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nemesis101 wrote:
You can also blur out the background in Photoshop, both CS4 and even more so CS5 have some great tools to retro-actively blur an unfortunate background!
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSA75837E3-FE05-4f86-A9DF-3C0DD602CA63a.html
or a very good video explaining this:
http://layersmagazine.com/photoshop-depth-of-field.html
Doug
quote="eccs19"]Thanks for all the advice. I think I'll try my 50mm or 55mm, and if time allows, I'll go back & try longer lenses.[/quote]
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