Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Refresher: Aperture and Depth of Field

Last week I showed folks how to crush the depth of field, filming with the SONY HDV camera.

We focused primarily on a WIDE ANGLE (W) lens giving us great depth of field while a TELEPHOTO lens (T) gives us a more shallow depth of field. The distance between the camera and the subject(s) and the distance between the foreground, subject in critical focus, and the background, also affects the degree of soft focus. The iris/aperture setting (which controls the amount of light that can pass through the iris - explained here), also has an impact on depth of field... read on!

Here are some great online tutorials which uses animals (I love animals!):

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Also see depth of field explained here abd also demonstrated in this article with great photos like these:

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