In keeping with: Shallow Depth of Field / Bokeh

None of these photos are portfolio ready, but rather snapshots and having fun with my camera.

In looking at the pictures your eye can't always pick the correct Aperture a photograph the photographer used...there is more optical science involved.

Thus, I discovered years ago that a shallow Depth of Field isn't always shot at f/1.4 and f/2.8.

On photos 1 through 6 take a guess as to what the Aperture was. All images taken with the Canon R5.

Setting will be in the comments section.

3 Comments

#1: f/7.1 @ 343mm

#2: f/5 @ 223mm

#3: f/2.8 @ 70mm

#4: f/8 @ 500mm

#5: f/7.1 @ 500mm

#6: f/8 @ 400mm

Great experiment, Dean. Thank you for posting all the apertures. I really enjoyed and appreciated this post.

Thanks for posting the info on these Dean.

Geeting desired DOF to separate subject from the background is always a challenge, helped somewhat by longer lenses. I would have guessed #1 & #2 had the smallest apertures.

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