Comments on: Venus de Milo: DOF in Photoshop CS

By: Merno

Merno — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:47:25 +0000

I don’t know what a DOF is , but I like this version of the pic.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:04:00 +0000

That’s why shooting with my wussy digital isn’t lighting my fire. I’d like to have the control I had back in the Canon AE-1 days, but there are so many other things to spend fifteen hundred dollars on. The aforementioned trip to Europe, for one. :)

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:07:27 +0000

All of the fixed lens digital cameras I’ve owned seem to strive for full DOF. You can manipulate the DOF but it’s a lot of fussing with the manual over-rides. The auto settings will give you full DOF unless you’re fairly close to the subject and you use the “portrait” mode. Of course optical DOF is much better than PS tricks but it is much easier to achieve optical DOF with a digital SLR.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:59:21 +0000

This is pretty cool. Venus really pops here, much more so than if you'd left the DOF alone. Did that camera have enough flexibility to allow you to manipulate DOF to get the shot to look that way in-camera? Compare this snap to the stuff most people shoot on vacation.