Photography tutorial - depth of field
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- Photography tutorial - depth of field
Hi, I’m Shelton Muller; today we’re going to be talking about the power of depth of field in your photographs.
When we choose to use any particular lens we insist that the lens may be well made particularly in terms of sharpness be it the eye is tuned to focusing on that within the frame which is sharp. For landscape photography we usually prefer to have focus extending right from the foreground through completely to the background. So the eye is led through the image because everything is sharp. But when we as photographers select a subject, to zoom in and focus on that does it automatically mean that everything in that frame needs to be in focus or should we just choose to highlight that which we want to be the subject.
Well that depends, if we choose an aperture like F 1.8, the picture will be very different to choosing an aperture say F16, F22 or F32. In these photographs taken of Jessica we can see a very very significant difference between the 2. This shot taken with a 200mm lens and F22 shows a very sharp background and a very distracting background as against this one taken with the same lens at F2.8
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