Re: [OM] BBC Photos

[Chuck Norcutt]

I agree with Moose.  I've not shot many photos with my iPhone 6s and 
never paid much attention to depth of field but just did a trial shot in 
the kitchen designed to show depth of field with subject about 4 feet 
away.  My shot shows greater depth of field than the shots on the train. 
 But the camera is clearly able to focus.  See the woman in the B&W 
striped blouse 2nd from the end.  The camera very much likes her zebra 
stripes and has ignored her somewhat closer face.  A cell phone should 
have targeted the face.
The "BBC Pop Up team" must be operating without anyone trained in 
photography.
Chuck Norcutt


On 9/4/2016 3:19 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/4/2016 8:01 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > PESO:
> >
> > Is it my eyes or are none of these in focus:
> >
> > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37249618
> Some part of most of them is in focus, just not the part one would
> expect and that would look correct. Visually annoying.
>
> > Maybe cell phone photos?
> I don't think so. Cell phone cameras have great depth of field (and
> pretty clever AF with face recognition), whereas these mostly have a
> narrow, misplaced focal plane. You'd have to use an app that allows
> touch AF and/or a post exposure app that does fake shallow DoF (they do
> exist) and do it on purpose. More like Artsy-Fartsy gone bad.
>
> Mis Taste Moose
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