When you have a really shallow depth of field on a macro shot, yet your entire foreground subject is tack sharp, it is often achieved by focus stacking. Otherwise, it can be quite difficult to blow out the background while having your entire subject in focus (even though it is quite small). I have done it with flowers before, so I think I am just used to the look. It has a sort of isolated, dreamy quality.

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HKPiax 2 points 3 years ago

So this can’t be just a wide-aperture picture because it’s a macro shot? In that case something this small would have a shallower DOF? I’m not a novice, but I’m definitely not a pro.

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elavat0r 2 points 3 years ago

I am in the same boat, not a pro, so my explanation may not be the best:

It's more to do with the fact that when you are taking macro shots you are generally very close to your subject, and unless it is a very thin object on a single plane parallel to your lens, you often really have to stop down to get the entire subject in focus (like f/8 - f/11). If you are shooting at f/2.8 you might only get a single petal on your flower in focus.

So if you see a shot of a small object with some depth to it, which is entirely in sharp focus, but then you have a super creamy bokeh on objects that are only a couple inches further away, there is a good chance that it was achieved using a wider aperture and stacking the in-focus bits of several shots. That's what I look for, anyway.

Hope that helps. B&H has good articles on DOF in macro photography and focus stacking that explain it better than I can!

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_max 3 points 3 years ago

Pretty cool pic!

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hummy_bee 1 point 3 years ago

So beautiful. Thank you for my new wallpaper….

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