Picture of the Day: Seashells on a Table

Photo by: Marco Nedermeijer.

I found this cool shot of seashells in the recent uploads section of Flickr. It was shot with a f/1.8 50mm lens wide open, giving it really shallow depth of field. The small group of seashells in the middle is in focus, but the picture very quickly drops out of focus as you move away from that center point. In this case, I think the depth of field is just a titch too shallow, and the image might be better served if the other parts are more in focus. After taking a second look, it’s also possible that the outer parts of the image were blurred after the fact in Photoshop. If so, then I think it was a little over-zealous…

But a cool image nonetheless, and a good illustration of selectively focusing on one subject and one subject only.