I’ve always loved taking snapshots. It’s always a joy when you point and shoot a camera and you capture the nicest scenes. Lately though, I’ve been trying to take photos properly. I’ve been learning techniques on a bridge camera, not quite a DSLR but a good enough one to practice the photography techniques on. Mind you, I’ve got a long way to go because I constantly confuse what the AV mode does (something about the aperture) and TV mode (which controls the shutter speed).
One of the exercises was depth of field. Now I can’t, for the life of me, explain properly what depth of field is so I’ll use Cambridge In Colour’s definition: “[It] refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on camera type, aperture and focusing distance, although print size and viewing distance can also influence our perception of depth of field.”
I think I managed to show depth of field successfully on the rose and everything else in the distance is blurry.
I love photographing birds and I seem to have a gazillion photos of seagulls now, courtesy of Harwich Pier. I do love this photo of this huge seagull with the Port of Felixstowe in the background.
More snapshots to come though. I’ve got a lot to learn!
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