DOF And The 45 mm

woof woof wrote:

When I'm taking an indoor or even an outdoor available light shot although I'll probably be using aperture priority I'll be monitoring the ISO setting and the shutter speed too because if my choice of aperture causes the ISO to rise too much or the shutter speed to fall too much the chances that I'm going to get the shot that I want may fall.

Taking your above shot as an example I wonder if using a smaller aperture to increase the DoF would have caused the shutter speed to drop to the point that camera or subject movement could have been an issue? If it could/would have caused a probelm it may have been better to keep the wide aperture and instead open up the framing a little by stepping back a pace or two and increasing the DoF that way?

Of course if you use flash you wont have this problem