11s Aperture/Macro Project

You are to explore the aperture through the camera lens while getting super close to your subject. Your subject is up to you, but you are going to get real close to it. 

Try a few different angles, and subjects. Try different aperture settings also. 

Since you are really close, your depth of field, or range of focus will be radically short, so you will have a short-short, medium-short and a longer-short depth of field. 

I would like to see a bit of a range. 

In the end, print or post a contact sheet and three of your best photos put in your journal.
Due Dec16th including your definitions and found examples of aperture and macro/close-up photos. 

 5 Examples of Macro photos

 

Examples of short, medium, long Depth of Field

Short depth of field

Medium depth of field

long depth of field

Definition of depth of field & explain how to control it with your camera

Aperture: The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted in order  to control the amount of light reaching the film. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film’s or image sensor’s degree of exposure to light. Usually, a fast shutter speed requires a larger aperture to allow sufficient light exposure, and a slow shutter speed requires a smaller aperture to avoid too much exposure.

The aperture affects the amount of light getting to the film or light sensitive paper. Basically,  the aperture is the part of a lens that determines how much light is going through to the sensor – if it’s wide open, lots of light gets through. If it’s closed down, less light gets through. Depth of field can  be manipulated by aperture. The objects closer or further away will be less sharp or less in focus. The closer or further away an object is from the focused area, the less sharp that object will be in a picture. The area where objects are “in focus” or sharp enough for the human eye to still perceive as “focused” is referred to as “Depth of Field”. The advantage of controling the depth of field is that you to make subjects in focus and the background to be blurred out when you open shutter and narrow down the depth of field. On the other hand, wide depth of field which makes the entire scene sharp and visiblke occurs when you widely open the aperture.