| November 5th, 2006 06:01 PM | |
 pb
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 126 | DOF, FOCUS and CREATIVITY issues
Hi, I submitted the following earlier today under a thread about DOF in the definitions forum but feel it might be actually found and read here. Would love some feedback:
another DOF revisit....how to score?
i am another guilty party for mis-scoring DOF in some cases. after reading the above clarifications I am now LESS confused about WHAT DOF is but MORE unsure about how to score it fairly. Unless every submission has an explanation for it, how to judge is very subjective . ...and I am still not sure if it helps or not to know DOF separately from just general FOCUS. COuld they perhaps be rolled into one category such as FOCUS/DOF and if there is a question the reviewer can explain in the review?
OR - if DOF is not an issue, is it OK to not score it (N/A)? If we rolled the 2 into 1 category then my OTHER suggestion about adding a CREATIVITY or ORIGINALITY category could perhaps be added....I'm still missing that component. To me it seems that creativity rather than DOF is a more important, critical feature of great photography. What say the rest of you? Maybe this should be taken up under a new heading but somehow I wandered from DOF to a new area. Would love some feedback here. Thanks for having this avenue of learning. pb (trish)
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| November 5th, 2006 06:42 PM | |
SJD
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 73 | DOF
I looked up Depth of Field on www.google.com and put in Depth of Field. I learned alot about what it was and was very interesting. Might give it a try. |
| November 6th, 2006 01:56 PM | |
SJD
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 73 | MASwick
That is good infomation you just gave on DOF & Focus. Even though I continue to read about it, it is still very confusing to me. What Fstop would you set the camera on for clear BG and what Fstop for a blurred BG. Are you saying if you have a more blurred BG that the reviews would go down. I didn't understand what you meant by, I would lower the rating and suggest standing back a bit more or raising the Fstop. Make sense? Help!
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| November 6th, 2006 06:07 PM | |
andreyG
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: 391 | focus
check my note at photorules forum about supershallow focus of superfast lenses - this is another world, I think any feature of the picture should be rated for emotional content that it gives to the picture. Moving blurr in action picture is 9, but the person frosen in midair with no movement - the focus, despite it excellency - will be 7, harsh focus on the close up of human face with all those caverns and debrisses - will be 5, because it suppose to be soft - I do not want all this junkyard being on the picture. ETC |
| November 7th, 2006 07:58 PM | |
SJD
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 73 | MASwick
MA, you ought to write a book on DOF. That is the best and simplest explination I have heard. "Hal la Lou Lou! Going to run out right now and try it. |
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