Some depth of field experiments using the driveway dragons. Most of them are with the 70-210, though this exercise began playing with the 105DC and I should be adding more from that lens at a later date.
We begin with the porch dragon, who is pretty much always hanging out on the broken wicker chair in the afternoon. She fought for a few weeks to claim planter from the porch to the gate, and now has to defend it continually.
These pictures are at f13 and f20. Anything less than f13 has a razor thin DOF, but the bokeh is so very nice.
The male that used to hang out on the stump hasn’t been around for the last week. I’m afraid a bird or the skunk that dug up the yard last weekend may have picked him off, but one of the females who lives in the crack still suns herself every afternoon. Here are some pictures from f16, with super creamy bokeh, up to f40.
The southern edge of the planter has been claimed by a belligerent male who seems to have moved down from the back yard. I used him to try some different focal lengths, getting bokeh so washed out you can’t even tell what is behind him, all the way to f40, which still blurs the concrete three feet behind the focal point. He’s brave enough I can get so close I can’t even focus with this lens, so anything less than f25 has a DOF so narrow you can’t get the whole lizard in. At 210mm, f16, and five feet the DOF is only 1.75 inches or so. Spin it out to f32 and you can get more than 5 inches, making it easier to get his eye in focus without the tail being completely blurred.
Here are some examples f45 down to f20
And some more from a different perspective, f22 through f45. At f22 the tip of the tail is out of focus, but the background sure looks nice.
And another perspective, f22 through f45.
And a few more just for good measure.
