How do u take this type of pic?

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by Cornbread

You can't snag photos off a Flash-based site. Anytime it ends in .php you're boned.

It's not the same as pulling something that ends with /joe.jpg

Mac 'grab' utility....

[venchka]

Sherina,

Follow the links in this thread to some good examples of using DOF.

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...496#post933496

[12stones]

The question's been answered, but I'd like to point out that it's not cool to try and snag someone else's image to post here without their permission.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by venchka

.....ps: wide open is overrated.

I agree, that's why I like to stop down to f/1.8 or so........

[venchka]

1/2 to 1 stop closed from wide open will firm things up.

[S-Man]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

Right out of the Photographers Bible.

" If you give a photographer the answer, you've solved their problem. If you let the photographer research the topic and discover the answer, you've given yourself a break from teaching everybody every freaking thing. " Ansell Adams

I though you were going to say something like: "Teach a man to take a picture, you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to LEARN to take a picture, you feed him for a lifetime..." or something like that

[venchka]

yes, except it's fish.

Seriously, folks will learn more if they have to dig out the information and PRACTICE!

Digital is free right? It shouldn't take long to figure out DOF when the pictures are free.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by venchka

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ps: wide open is overrated.

Oh No! the gates of heaven open up at f/1.0 and light becomes magical and all darkness's colors come out and the hand held hunt of light begins.

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” Van Gogh.

[kimberley]

Welcome to TPF, you will learn alot of info on here, I know I have over the years and Ive spent alot of years learning....My advice is to read, read, read, practice, practice, read some more and then practice some more...the only way you will learn is to pick up your camera and read the manual front to back and put what youve read to practice.

But to answer your question, you can shoot wide open ( 1.8 or 2.8 depending on your lens ) and get everyone is focus with the bokeh background, the trick is a steady hand, everyone on the same focal plane....once you can get that then bada bing your in business ( not literally) it take alot of learning to be able to call yourself in bizness!

Have fun, practice and read and research

FYI....right clicking on an image on someone web site is a no-no....and then uploading it without permission, another no-no :)

kimberley added 0 Minutes and 30 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

1.0.....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh thats whenthe angels start singing and its not overated :)

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

No you get Real Bokah when yhou can open up to .9!

Cool thing with digital is that you can get instant feedback- shoot / go to laptop and upload/view/ shoot again/ etc while with film you had to shoot 24 times than drive to a lab and then wait an hour at least and then go to your notes and see what you did on shot X and then shoot again so 2 minutes or less now vs 2 hours before which while trying to learn makes a huge difference of getting up on the learning curve.

Same can be said on how to light a scene for the look that you want. You can shoot and see the results and then do the adjustments of the lights/camera to tweek that look to your final results.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by DEMDeepEllumMusic

No you get Real Bokah when yhou can open up to .9!

Cool thing with digital is that you can get instant feedback- shoot / go to laptop and upload/view/ shoot again/ etc while with film you had to shoot 24 times than drive to a lab and then wait an hour at least and then go to your notes and see what you did on shot X and then shoot again so 2 minutes or less now vs 2 hours before which while trying to learn makes a huge difference of getting up on the learning curve.

Same can be said on how to light a scene for the look that you want. You can shoot and see the results and then do the adjustments of the lights/camera to tweek that look to your final results.

True, Canon 50/0.95...