When too little depth of field is a bad idea

[TanisHalfElven]

Here is an ideal example of what a small DOF can do.
http://cuppcomputing.com/



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these guys probably thought taking a photograph with a SLR at wide aperture was the "best" solution. Instead it ends of hurting my eyes looking at it.

 

[Throckmorton]

Dude it's so artistic.

 

[JohnnyRebel]

That is terrible for a product shot.

I, personally, don't like it when the dof is too shallow for portraits.

For instance, the girl carries this photo but I hate how her ear, one eye and lips are losing focus because of the too shallow dof.

JR

 

[angry hampster]

Nailed focus on the foreground eye though -- many (myself included) like this type of composition in portraits.

 

[mooncancook]

I used to take photos of my scale model cars and bikes with a p&s that look just like that and I wondered how people were able to take close-up photos of these tiny models with everything in focus.

 

[Throckmorton]

Nailed focus on the foreground eye though -- many (myself included) like this type of composition in portraits.

I would like it if the other eye was in focus

 

[Throckmorton]

I used to take photos of my scale model cars and bikes with a p&s that look just like that and I wondered how people were able to take close-up photos of these tiny models with everything in focus.

With the p&s wouldn't more be in focus?

 

[gevorg]

I hate when hardware review sites overuse DOF.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

With the p&s wouldn't more be in focus?

yeah. He probably meant that if it was that bad with a P&S he couldn't imagine how bad it'd be with an SLR or something.

 

[RobDickinson]

How to get it all in focus?

Stop down some, but then you push diffraction and lighting.

Use multiple images and focus stack a very big thing in the small world of macro especially with the mpe65 etc

Use a tilt shift lens and tilt the plane of focus, a lot of product shots are done this way.

 

[angry hampster]

How to get it all in focus?

Stop down some, but then you push diffraction and lighting.

Use multiple images and focus stack a very big thing in the small world of macro especially with the mpe65 etc

Use a tilt shift lens and tilt the plane of focus, a lot of product shots are done this way.

F/16 would have covered this fine with an appropriate lens (50-75mm) with no noticeable diffraction.

 

[RobDickinson]

Yep, for web sized product shots that would have been fine.