Anyone have time to tell me how you make a photo look like the example i'm posting from the galleries? I've tried changing camera settings etc...and can't get the effect...please help
the fact that her face is really the only clear part of the photo..everything else is blurred
Very shallow DOF would be achieved with a large aperture. He used f/1.8
that's why the shutter speed was so fast. (1/800 th of a second.) Still, I wonder more about the lighting. It looks natural, but diffused.
The Coolpix 8700 doesn't exactly have the shallowest DoF in the world (a function of sensor size and short focal length). But, put it in Aperture Priority and set the aperture to the widest setting. Also, the more you can zoom in, the shallower the DoF will be.
There are three things, each of which has been hit on, but not together.
1) All other things being equal (e.g., same camera and lens), the bigger the aperture, the smaller the depth of field - that range of distances that will be sharp.
2) All other things being equal (e.g., the aperture), the bigger the sensor, the smaller the depth of field, all other things being equal. A point and shoot has a sensor much smaller than an SLR, so you just can't get the same shallow DOF even with the same aperture
3) All other things being equal, the longer the lens, the smaller the depth of field.
