The Rural Roadside — Continued.

Greetings, Fellow Known Path Rediscoverers!

I'm coming in with an update of the color situation at the side of the road. It's last week's location, here is the previous photo report on it, shared about three days ago, but it has grown poppies.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 4
Shutter Speed 1/800 of a second
Light Sensitivity ISO 100
Focal Length 131 mm

The second image is also a reminder of what started calling The Third Factor in DoF (Depth of Field). I am going to break it down as if talking to newcomers at Photography Station. To make it shallow, i.e. blurring the background more, you can control three factors — aperture, the focal distance, and The Third Factor.

Opening the aperture more would result in a shallower depth of field. Well I had F 4 in all of the cases, I think, both this week and the previous one. While a strong determinator, it is not all there is.

Increasing the focal distance would also work in that direction.

But

The Third Factor

is...

the ratio between two distances. The one from the camera to the object against the one from the object to the background.

The shorter the first, and the longer the second, the shallower the field of focus.

In the case of the second image in this post, the object in focus is near me while the field with yellow crops is further back from it.

And I wonder...

Isn't that factor the most important of all?

Peace and Poppies!

Yours,

Manol