DPS Assignment : Wide Open

Over at the Digital Photography School Forums they have a new assignment every couple of weeks. The latest assignment is “Wide Open”.

This weeks assignment is “wide open”. This may have a few people asking what exactly shooting wide open is. Basically it refers to the size of the opening in your lens to let light pass through. The smaller the f-stop the larger the opening. For example, if your lens is the standard 18-55mm kit lens it probably has options of f3.5 to f5.6. The f3.5 is a larger opening than the f5.6. So for this assignment we are trying for smaller numbers to have a wider opening.

A great intro for this is in the blog: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/aperture/

This was my submission, shot with my 50mm lens at f/1.8.

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