'Apologies for photo quality, damn iPhone!'

kylew said:
I'd rather see "crappy phone quality" photos that are in focus, than someone attempt to take photos with a DLSR and the subject is out of focus in every shot, but you can see everything in the background in crisp clarity.
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Oh good God this! The food shots were particularly bad for it, total nonsense. I want to see the food, I don't want to see a fifth of it up close very clearly and the rest of the plate in a weird horrible looking fuzz.
 
Ahleckz said:
Oh good God this! The food shots were particularly bad for it, total nonsense. I want to see the food, I don't want to see a fifth of it up close very clearly and the rest of the plate in a weird horrible looking fuzz.
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Tough, if I only want the viewer to see the chicken rather than the peas, I will damn well do it!

:D
 
Ahleckz said:
Oh good God this! The food shots were particularly bad for it, total nonsense. I want to see the food, I don't want to see a fifth of it up close very clearly and the rest of the plate in a weird horrible looking fuzz.
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Location: Glasgow

You should be used to seeing everything in a blurry looking fuzz!
 
AcidHell2 said:
It's like people haven't seen food photos or recipe books.
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I know! After all that palava about my photos last time I went and got out my Jamie Oliver cookbooks, it has less DoF than mine! And it's been that way since his first book from over a decade ago...it's not new, it's just people are uneducated I think. They only see photos taken on compacts, only see photos on Facebook and their brain gets all confuddled when presented with a "proper" photo.

Little did they realise images like that are all around them from adverts to movies and how their eyes actually see the world...
 
Raikiri said:
I've never seen DSLR shots on here where the subject is out of focus. Only people like you complaining :p
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This may come as a shock to you, but OcUK isn't the only forum on the net. :p

Plus, what you said was about the background being out of focus, with the subject being in focus, isn't that the opposite of what I said?
 
bushmins said:
Never thought of it like that, just always thought the iphone must have been crap.
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Nah, they're trying to show off that they are using a popular and easily available smartphone. Those who put the generic "phone camera" and produce a badly lit picture mean it. Those who name their phone are 99% of the time trying to show that they belong to a clique that embodies them with special powers.
 
Ahleckz said:
Oh good God this! The food shots were particularly bad for it, total nonsense. I want to see the food, I don't want to see a fifth of it up close very clearly and the rest of the plate in a weird horrible looking fuzz.
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I don't get it, if they pulled back a bit, instead of insisting the lens touches the subject, they'd have a photo where the subject is in focus.
 
kylew said:
I don't get it, if they pulled back a bit, instead of insisting the lens touches the subject, they'd have a photo where the subject is in focus.
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The subject is in focus, that's the whole point of DOF is to make the subject clear and crisp whilst blurring everything else, to draw your attention to the subject.
Or are most portrait paintings all rubbish as well? As they are almost always have subject in focus and a blurred background.
 
kylew said:
I don't get it, if they pulled back a bit, instead of insisting the lens touches the subject, they'd have a photo where the subject is in focus.
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It's very odd. With the food, they make a plate of food and often post a recipe. However with the pictures they've zoomed in so much on one tiny aspect and render the rest of the plate obsolete. It just makes it look like they can't cook and have hidden that by posting a very small portion of the food. Why can't they drawback and take a picture of the entire plate/meal?
If they were just concentrating on one part of the dish then why post a recipe up for everything on the plate? Just put your delicious looking food on a plate and take a picture.
 
AcidHell2 said:
The subject is in focus, that's the whole point of DOF is to make the subject clear and crisp whilst blurring everything else, to draw your attention to the subject.
Or are most portrait paintings all rubbish as well? As they are almost always have subject in focus and a blurred background.
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How are you misunderstanding what I'm saying? If you read my posts properly, you wouldn't have felt the need to give a lecture on depth of field.

I'm complaining about people who take photos of things, where the subject is just a blurry blob of colour, while the background is in crisp focus.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The subject is in focus.

Examples, please?
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How can you tell me the subject is in focus when we're talking about a theoretical image, where the whole point of my complaint is about people who take photos where the subject isn't in focus, but the background is pin sharp?
 
MagicBoy said:
Nah, they're trying to show off that they are using a popular and easily available smartphone. Those who put the generic "phone camera" and produce a badly lit picture mean it. Those who name their phone are 99% of the time trying to show that they belong to a clique that embodies them with special powers.
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Never guess what I saw the other day when out for a drive in the Jaaaaaaaaag...
 
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