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The Aperture was set slightly smaller so you could see all of the textures present. The shutter speed so you could get some shadows as well as some nice contrast
They didn't mind me taking pictures of the money in the till, which is a bit strange I would have thought. Experimenting with extreme depth of field in close-up using a wide-angle lens.
The gate in the back-garden. Not something I've really ever paid attention to before.
One of the greatest things about this challenge is that you do notice more of what's around you on a daily basis - even if most of the time it's not that impressive...
This was a very tactile chain meant to prevent errant cars from falling off the petrol station forecourt onto unsuspecting pedestrians. Thankfully it didn't look like anyone had ever tested it.
See the Technique topic "Depth of Field".
I hold most Photoshop hackery in the highest contempt, so please do not interpret this image as an example of what I think is art. This is not pretentious "look at what my program can do" navelgazing -- this is "look at and interpret what almost any camera can do" navelgazing.
In this image, I am combining two real photos into one to show, in immediate, concrete imagery, the difference between a a shallow depth of field and a deeper one. One set of checkers is the short depth of vield and the other is a deeper depth of field. Note how the focus plane is at the bottom of the page. One set has the area farther away growing out-of-focus faster than the other set.
This is a detail of a larger image