This first photo is one with a small depth of field. I was in aperture priority mode, and I set my aperture to f3.5. Once I set the aperture to f3.5, the camera automatically calculated what shutter speed it should be set to, and in this case, the camera set the shutter speed to about 1/20. Although the shutter speed is usually faster when you have a large aperture, I think the camera set the shutter speed to about 1/20 because I was inside, where there wasn't as much light, which means it would need to be open longer to allow enough light to enter the camera. What is interesting about taking a photo with a small depth of field is the fact that the in this case, the object closest to the lens is in focus, and the background is blurred.
This next photo has a medium depth of field, meaning that a lot of the picture is in focus; however there are still some areas that are blurred. When taking this picture I still had the camera set to aperture priority mode. I set the aperture to f6.3, and the camera determined that the shutter speed should be 1/200. When looking at this photo you can tell it is a medium depth of field because almost all of the grass and the dog are in focus, while the plants in the background are only slightly out of focus.
For the last photo I used an aperture of f16 while still in aperture priority mode. Since I was still in aperture priority mode, the camera automatically set the shutter speed to about 1/40-1/60. This photo has a large depth of field and I decided to take this picture with a large depth of field because I wanted the leaves and trees along with the waterfall in the foreground and background to be in focus.
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