PPGH Assignment: Shallow DOF

From the PPBF:

This Week’s Assignment:
Subject Isolation With A Shallow Depth Of Field
As photographers we are storytellers.  Our job is to provide elegant tools for our customers to tell their stories.  One way we can create a more elegant and polished story, and further define ourselves as professionals, is through the use of a shallow depth of field.  A shallow depth of field is a tool a photographer can use to draw the viewer’s gaze to a certain area in a finished portrait, making it more clear was to what the photograph is trying to convey. This week, your assignment is “Shallow Depth Of Field”.  Tell a story, and make the subject of your story more clear through the use of a shallow depth of field.

Ok, quick and dirty. Is it groundbreaking? No.  But this is what was going on in my house today when I decided to participate:

Hmm. Ok, came back to this thing a day later. The assignment was to tell a story using DOF, and this image above really doesn’t do that. The image below is a better example of the purpose of this assignment, taken prior to a wedding one week ago.

Have a great day!