Aperture

This week's photography homework deals with aperture (controlling the size of the opening in the lens which controls the amount of light that hits the digital sensor).  I had to play around with the Depth of Field (distance in front of and beyond the focused main subject).  Basically, the higher the DoF number the more of the picture that is in focus and the lower you go the more the background is blurred.

I practiced with a tree in our backyard:

DoF 36: Just about everything is in focus

DoF 10:  The focus is mostly on the leaves in the front

Here is my actual homework assignment that I turned in at DoF 5.6  (the lowest setting my camera will go without a zoom lens):

I got good reviews.  He suggested that next time I explore angles to see if I could get the background to be a different color than the color of the focused subject, but that the technique was correct.