The birds refused to cooperate today so I ended up using this lawn decoration for experimenting with aperture. The bird is in focus and the background is unfocused. This setting is using lowest aperture value (largest aperture opening) for my camera when using full zoom.
The background on this one is more in focus, the aperture is set at highest aperture value (smallest aperture opening) for my camera.
Played with aperture on this one too. Was hoping to see a sharp foreground, and an unfocused background here with the large aperture. But I did not get that effect.
Here with the smallest aperture, things look a little more unfocus. I think that is probally due to the slow shutter speed the camera thought was needed, and I was not using a tripod.
When working with apertures is there a rule as to how one gets the background to become unfocused? As seen above it worked in one example but not the other. I played around with the apertures with different sets of subjects. I noticed sometimes having a larger aperture made the colors in the picture more intense. While having a smaller aperture made the colors less intense. But it seemed like the focus was unchanged in the different parts of the image.
This is boomer. With the window in the background he came out way too dark.
In this one I used spot metering. It lightened boomer up a bit. The background has too much light.
On this one I used a flash. Boomer and the background came out looking good. Only there is a reflection of Boomer on the window.
I also took a picure of a friend outside that was backlit. I used spot metering and it came out great.
I used Exposure compensation on this one. It was taken in the late afternoon when the sun shines through this window at full force. It lighten them up. But the areas where the sun is brightest are washed out.
