Depth of Field Exercises

I photographed the same scene twice, but once using the biggest aperture and adjusting the shutter speed to match this, and the next using the smallest aperture and consequently a slower shutter speed. For both settings, I used an ISO of 100. I completed this with two different scenes and the results are below.

The images taken with the largest aperture (1&3) had the shallowest depth of field, which means less of the contents inside the frame is in focus which produces a nice effect, these images are also brighter than those taken with the smallest aperture (2&4), which have a deeper depth of field. The second set of photographs was not as good as the first as the word 'milk' could be more in focus. It is slightly out of focus because when adjusting the aperture and shutter speed I may have moved the camera.