The Jump

[dustyhawk]

Clark Quay Jump by Dustyhawk, on Flickr

Camera Canon PowerShot G5
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 7.2 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire


Taken during his trip in Singapore with a bunch of his friends.

[peeperita]

great shot, dusty....

but, critique requires that you also include a question specific to your image.....just tell us what you like and don't like about your image and we'll take it from there.....

peeper

[dustyhawk]

ah sorry about that.

In this shot i was actually trying to blur out the background and have my friends to be crisp clear.

[11A Fotografie]

The more mm you use, the more you get a blurry background!
Wide angle lenses aren't great for blurry backgrounds. It's nice to be close to them, but if you step many steps back and you use like 100mm it will give you a totally different result.

Does this make sense? It's a bit hard to explain for me in english!

[ecate78]

Hello!

You can get a blurrier background:

- while taking the picture in two way:
-first you can open up the diaphraghm (which means choosing the smaller f number you
can)
-second you can choose a longer lens, like a telephoto (which means you have at least
more than 80 mm lenght lens)
- afterwards PP with programs like Photoshop, but in this case it would mean you select the
background without your friends and for the beginner photoshopper I am it seems to much
work...

What you could also try is re-taking the picture if your friends agree and selecting a more unified background. Finally you could choose to take the same picture from a lower point of view and have almost only the sky as a background. If you choose the last possibility remember that the deformation can be quite important (think when you take a picture of a building from a low point of view with a widelens: the vertical lines tend to be oblique).

Good luck with your work. Very nice idea and composition.

[BK553]

With something like this, where you have people at different distances from the camera, it can be difficult to find the sweet spot. Another option would be instead of blurring the background to choose a background that is plain and simple to begin with. You can fill the frame with sky if you have them jump and the top of a small hill and you are slightly lower than them. This may produce better results next time.