Help!

How could i have increased the DoF of this picture?? I thought 3.5 would have been high enough. However it looks horrible. Too damn busy.

Shot with the 70-200 f/2.8

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increased? you mean decrease?

if you got closer and used a longer lens, thats the biggest way, as the difference between 2.8 and 3.5 wouldn't do much

Yeah, I meant decrease. I thought 2.8 would be shallow enough for these show.s.

camera to subject makes a bigger difference in DOF, especially wince you were already using the 70-200

Yeah, I'm still learning all this stuff. Gotta sign up for a photog class for the fall.

A quick 30 second fix. Spending more time and you can make it a lot better.

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Thats a little more blurred than I was looking for. Too close to tunnel vision. I basically just was hoping the background would have been blurred out a bit naturally.

Like Corey said go back to the variables of DOF i.e. in addition to aperture focal length (shorter the lens shallower the DOF) and subject distance (smaler the subject distance shallower the DOF).

There's also the circle of confusion. A lens specific constant which impacts DOF but really only relevant for extreme macro or pixel peeping so best to concentrate on the above 3 variables.

Like Corey said go back to the variables of DOF i.e. in addition to aperture focal length (shorter the lens shallower the DOF) and subject distance (smaler the subject distance shallower the DOF).

There's also the circle of confusion. A lens specific constant which impacts DOF but really only relevant for extreme macro or pixel peeping so best to concentrate on the above 3 variables.