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p.3 #1 · p.3 #1 · Percentage of Keepers that use Shallow DoF | |
I think it really comes down to something of an unbalanced question because, at least for me, landscape keepers, are much harder to come by, because they are compositions where I really need to have just the right light etc, so I can visit a place many times, but often come away with no keepers because of cloud cover etc when I went.
I may shoot an equal number of WO (portraits and around town things like cars etc, or even landscape details) as I try with f11 "grand" landscape shots but its easier to find something really cool. Not to say light doesn't matter, because it still does, but its just not that make of break variable the way it is with landscapes.
So essentially, to say that only a small percent of f11 shots I take are keepers and correlate that with DoF wouldn't be too accurate, because most of my f11 shots aren't keepers because of other environmental factors.
Maybe if I lived in Hawaii and I had amazing sunsets, awesome looking storms (instead of just boring gray Midwest skies) et al., I'd have a much higher number of landscape keepers, and as such, much more stopped down keepers.
In contrast, I think its also possible that more WO shots could be keepers with regards to portraiture simply because it allows more natural light work.
Does one like a shot because of the subject isolation alone, or does one like the shot because the way the natural light lit the subject, and it could only be shot wide open due to shutter speed ?
Its a bit of a reach for me to break my photography down to just deep or narrow DoF and associate that with the ONLY variable that went into what makes images I consider keepers
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