Attract Attention With Selective Focus
"Photography is the beauty of life, captured." -Tara Chisholm
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February Photography Classes
Learn to take your camera past "Automatic" mode
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Monday, January 25th, 6pm. If you’ve taken a class with us, check your email this week for details!
Featured Class: Fundamentals of Photography
There is a lot of science that goes into photography… don’t let it scare you! Depth-of-field, shutter speeds, F-stops, film speeds, lenses, just to name a few aspects. This class is designed as a "crash-course" to help you understand these complex topics, along with some hands-on time shooting outdoors, practicing learned skills.
During these 4 weeks you’ll gain confidence and abilities to improve photo-taking of your favorite subjects. Please bring a SLR or dSLR camera to the first class. After these 4 weeks, the Level 2 "Experience Booster" class is designed to follow-up and expand the knowledge gained and promote further learning through experience.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Selective Focusing
The amount of a scene in focus, both in front of and behind a subject, is controlled by the aperture. You have a lesser amount in focus in front of the subject and a greater amount in back of the subject (about a 1/3 – 2/3 ratio).
To control focus, use:
- A large aperture (small number) for a minimum amount of focus
- A small aperture (large number) for a maximum amount.
This is known as selective focusing and is used as a way to draw your viewer to your subject; the eyes go to what is in focus.
Assignment:
- Select a subject.
- Set your camera to f4 (or lower) and take a picture.
- Now set your camera to f16 and take the same picture again.
- Compare how the amount of the scene in focus differs between the two pictures.
Written by Ron Kness
Next Week: Shutter Speed
