The season isn't quite going the way Coach Achenbach had hoped I'm sure. They lost two tough close games early on tonight they got blown out by a very very good General McLane football team. I took this shot of the coach tonight after the Lancers had scored again in the first half--I think it was the fourth TD. I wanted to post this not so much for that story, but for a photo observation. One of th hardest, yet most useful 'tricks' a photographer employs is using depth of field. Basically using a wide open aperture or f-stop with a long lens you can blur a background to the point of abstraction. When I looked through the lens the background was bright, but I could make out the scoreboard better than the camera could--or at least in my mind I knew what the scoreboard said. So when it appeared this way in the back of my sensor I was a little surprised even though I knew I was going to get something sorta like this--I didn't think the lights would be so big and blurred. I tried to stop my lens down in order to to get the numbers a little sharper, but the coach moved before I could get a frame. As I was posting this I really wished I had because it would be my demonstration on how depth of field works and can be used in a practical story telling way. I should've worked it a little ha