Saturday Night Pizza
Broccoli/Bell Pepper/Onion/Garlic Pizza
More pictures in the kitchen. This is the best of a series I took while cooking pizza for dinner last night. Actually, Mary is the cook, I just roll out the dough and manage the pizza’s transition from counter to oven and back again. Mary is such a wonderful cook. A true foodie.
Technically there are problems with this image. Mostly, it has too narrow of a depth of field (area of sharp focus) and the position of this depth of field is on the wrong part of the pizza (it should include the front of the pizza to about half way through it). To improve the next time I’ll close down the f-stop on the camera to get a greater depth of field which will probably require the use of the flash.
Mary and I just finished discussing Christmas dinner and she suggested pizza (Spinach and Sun-dried tomato). So I’ll get another chance to make a great pizza picture. Maybe I should practice some before then? Won’t that be fun!! By the way the pizza was delicious.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Will,
Enjoying your blog (found it via your recent comment on my site). Some very nice photography here, and good writing to boot. You have a new subscriber.
I like the angle of the pizza shot, and the extra shallow depth of field, while perhaps a little disorienting, makes it a more interesting photo. You might try cropping it much more closely on the pizza (or even some portion of it). The warm lighting and colour are quite nice in this one.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:51 am
Hello,
about the depth of field of your pictures:
For a greater depthof field, you want to use manual focusing, and make the sharp-focused point in the plane that is at the first third of the distance between the nearest and the most remote points you want to get within the depth of field. This is no rule of thumb, it is mathematically demonstrated.
The pro solution is to use a view camera and tilt the bodies so that the plane of the film, the plane of the lens and the plane of the object you shoot intersect along the same line (Scheimpflug’s rule). This is no approximation, you don’t need any depth of field tolerance, the entire object plane is sharp -focused.
Cheers
Jean-Paul