FOCUSING BASICS

 PHOTOS BY GWYNETH MADRINAN

             What made this picture work really is because of colour and 

                tone that matches well with the leaves and his skin colour.

              For these series of pictures with the leaves on the ground are taken 

                with my model laying on the grass and I stood on top of him trying 

                  to capture the angles. Before I took the pictures, I have arranged 

             the leaves in a way that it goes around his body and leaves some gap.  

                  Also, I zoom in and out trying to focus on key parts of his body.

This is the setting I have used for this particular
photo that I took that I like. I tried to blur
out the back but the lowest aperture was 5.6
for the focus.

The flower in his mouth was sort of blurred but the
rest of the picture has been focused.

In this picture, his hands were quite focused compare to
the background and the flowers in his mouth

Later on I decided to get my jumper and block
some of the lighting and make it a bit dark letting
the natural light shine from the top. I was able
to somewhat blur out the background of the
leaves and focus on him. 

This is the first picture I took where I tried to blur out the leaves
and focus on my model. However, the lighting was
too strong on one of the side
of his face. 

   With this picture I tried to focus on the yellow flower
and tried to blur out the background. However, with the
camera lens that we have, we are limited to a certain amount of
focus with the lowest aperture focus of 3.5. 

This is the setting I have used next to try and match the
lighting and darkness from the trees. This time I was able to
get the lowest focus aperture is 3.5 which was hard to
 get due to the lighting.