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[13 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]
How to Get the right DOF in your macro photographs?

Lets get some things cleared first, the larger the aperture the smaller the depth of field that means the smaller the f stop the smaller the depth of field.  I repeat in bold
Large aperture = Small DOF
Small Fstop  = Small DOF
So what does that mean when u are using say 2.8 Fstop on your macro lens the depth that will be in focus will be less than when using say 4. I would like to look at depth of field as the volume in focus. Remember that the DOF extends …

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[8 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
What in the world is Bokeh ?

Have you been wondering what this Bokeh, that most pro’s talk about, is? It is actually the misspelling of a Japanese word if you take it in a literary sense. The real spelling is Boke and its a Japanese word meaning Fuzzy. OK don’t wonder where your friends learned Japanese from. Photography has a lot to do with Japan and there are a lot of Japanese pro’s this word was commonly used by them to explain the fuzzy areas and its quality. Now an English writer writing for an English …