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Originally Posted by Barewolf
I like that orange foto, amazing what you can take pics of when you think about it, something so simple like that. Will have to try and do that on mine when i suss out what i am doing hehehe.
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Notice the wide aperture setting of f5.6?
That gives a very narrow focus range, which you can see in the photo where the orange closest to us is out of focus, and the orange furthest away from us is out of focus, but a narrow section in the middle is in perfect forcus.
A narrow aperture setting will give a deeper focal length, wiki has an article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture with some examples such as this:
Taken with a narrow aperture of f32, you can see the background clearly.
Taken with a wide aperture of f5, now the background is blurry and looks great.
Also, with a narrow aperture (high f number) less light gets into the camera so the shutter has to be open longer (unless you crank up the ISO to compensate) meaning you can make waterfalls look groovy:
