dragons

[pipatic]

hi all
this is oscar one of my wife breaded dragons,a few other photo in my gallery ,if you would take alook and let me know what i am doing wrong, be great, my old camera was fuji 2200, but now got a fuji 602,with extras lenses and filters, good camera but ,havent got to grips with it yet

[ratcheer]

good camera but ,havent got to grips with it yet

Looks like you're doing just fine with it.

Tim

[pipatic]

thank you tim, but i dunno would like to get closer,clear or some thing

[ThePup]

I think that's plenty close enough!

Lovely shot I'd love one o those as a pet, but the wife would kill me. There's been a few flat ones around the roads here lately I'm afraid

[LeeSowden]

When you say 'clearer' do you mean a deeper depth of field? Seems very sharp on the head at the moment, I assumed you'd intentionally gone for a small DoF.

[pipatic]

DoF ???

[ratcheer]

DoF stands for "depth of field". It can be relatively shallow or relatively deep.

Deep DoF means that a greater proportion of the near to far objects in the field of the photo are in focus.

Shallow DoF means that a small part of the near to far objects are in sharp focus and a larger part is out of focus.

You control the DoF for effect. Your picture is giving shallow DoF to very good effect, which is why you are getting several compliments on your picture. The out of focus parts make the sharply focused parts appear to be even sharper.

To get more DoF, you decrease the lens aperture setting, which means you select a higher "f" number. E.g., f/32 is a fairly high f-number, a fairly small lens aperture, and gives fairly large DoF.

Conversely, to get less DoF, increase the aperture, which is to say select a small f-number. f/4 is a fairly small f-number, a fairly large aperture, and gives relatively shallow DoF.

Remember, shallow DoF is not always bad.

Tim

[pipatic]

many thanks tim,

[AndyUK]

Very nice shot indeed :-)