Breaking the Rules: #2 Main subject is in focus
Purposely focused the camera on the background subject.
The idea here was that even though the girl was the main subject, I wanted to see the expression on her boyfriend's face as he looked at her.
So while the girl dominates the scene and the direction of the boy's eyes guide us towards her, she is, nevertheless, out of focus and slightly darker.
Lighting used: Bracket mounted 550EX flash set to a 1:2 lighting ratio with a 420EX slave shooting through an umbrella.
Lens: 70-200 2.8 'L' lens, at 105mm and f/2.8.
posted by dwterry at 7/27/2005 09:47:00 PM
4 Comments:
Very nice. Actually, I think the boy is the main subject--but it may be the issue we have been all running into: the main subject changes with the focus. Did you shoot this the other way as well? I would have liked to see it that way. I think the boy, if not TOO OOF, would have still been the main focus and that might have really been the best example of breaking Rule 2. Nice work.
I was trying to think of a creative way for the dominant image to be out of focus while leaving "something of interest" still in focus.
But I think you are right... whatever I decide to put the focus on immediately *becomes* the subject. I don't know how to get around that without making the image more of a "mistake" (i.e. randomly change the focus and see what you get).
Having tried this and looked at a number of our attempts I think the key is to have the 'main target' only slightly out of focus and have the 'secondary target' something that you can overlook.
In this case I would suggest the 'secondary target' male figure needs to be almost in shadow in order to counter the urge for the eye to switch roles.
Just a thought.
This is a tough rule to break and bring across the 'subject' as being the one out of focus. IMO the guy is the focal point (and quite amusing also!). ;^)
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