Focus Setting

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Here are two very different images I took of the same scene/location using the different focus settings on my SLR camera. Photographs can be used to convey different meanings depending on what the subject is and how the technology is manipulated to outline or hide different aspects of a picture.

In Image_1 you notice the photographer is trying to show you various uncoordinated bubbles that vary in size and location and what they are being placed on, our brain picks up as much information in trying to understand the image and its characteristics, which results in the viewer concentrating more on the rain drops on the window than what’s outside of the window as the focus settings allowed to see the rain drops better.

However in Image_2 you see a very unclear picture of some garages with housetops as in this picture the raindrops are still in the picture but this time the viewer sees a much more broad side of the background than the foreground, as this setting focuses much more on the background which gives the viewer the feeling that he/she are outside.

This is how focus settings of a camera can be used to manipulate and outline specific parts of an image or even hide any attributes the image shares.