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Tired of clicking to see a large version? Upgrade to e2 to browse all photos automatically at their largest size.Trying to get away from the birds in my garden, here is a little exercise in Depth of Field. These are candid pics of Matt, who works at the British Wildlife Centre, Lingfield, with European Eagle Owl "Ethel". Matt is also an EPZ member - Sweetmart.
I took these the week before last, whilst Matt was doing his Birds of Prey talk, late in the afternoon with the light failing. Both images are full frame and haven't been cropped at all. Levels, highlights/shadows have been tweaked, but nothing more. In V1 I have focused on Matt's face and in V2 on "Ethel" - it is interesting to compare the dof and focus in both.
Settings: F/2.8 AV mode 1/5000sec EV -0.67 ISO1600 Spot metering 70-200mm@200mm handheld
Many thanks for your C&Cs on my House Sparrow - as always very much appreciated.
| Title: | Depth of Field |
| Username: | 
teocali |
| Uploaded: | 12 Jan 2010 - 12:37 PM |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 40D |
| Lens: | Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Pets / captive animals, Portraits / people |
| Votes: | 42 |
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Two really nice images Sylvia - well done for experimenting like this.. it is good to see!
Andy
Hi Peeps!
The mod is an easy one if you want to have a go. You will, ofcourse, need both images. There are a couple of ways to do this but here is the easier of the bunch.
Open both files in PS (the focussed shot of Matt is going to be our backround) switch to the focussed shot of Ethal and using the Rectangular Marquee tool select everything except the frame.
Copy the selection and then make the Matt image active and paste your selection onto the backround. Lower the opacity of the Ethal Layer so you can see through it to line it up with the backround. When happy carefully erase the layer upto Ethals outline.
That is pretty much it - on the mod you'll see a blurred section on the bottom of the frame - this is where the compositions didn't match (camera movement between shots) if you want to be rid of this try resizing the Ethal layer until it's covered.
Enjoy!!
Andy
Quote: Great photos. Lovely picture of Ethel, and my... what a handsome young man holding her!
My mother has a copy of this on her mantlepiece, I hope you dont mind?
Matt
Of course I don't mind Matt 
Please feel free to use the picture in any way you wish. I'm just delighted that you like it and it was really nice of you to agree to my uploading it as you didn't know you wereo on camera!
Sylvia
OOOOOOo I might have a go at this using your image Sylvia if you dont mind, its interesting to see the dof in both images but I notice your lens is f2.8 and mine is more than that I cant get the same dof as you do but well done on the 2 pictures
Quote: OOOOOOo I might have a go at this using your image Sylvia if you dont mind, its interesting to see the dof in both images but I notice your lens is f2.8 and mine is more than that I cant get the same dof as you do but well done on the 2 pictures
Delighted for you to have a go Ann - it is so good of Andy to post the method.
Sylvia
Two excellent captures and very good use of DOF Sylvia,great comp too.
A great exercise here Sylvia and you got it spot on I would say, liked the mod and the tutorial, learned something myself here 
Geoff.
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