Lets talk a bit about a term that photographers use that you may not have heard or may not understand, "Depth of Field."
First lets talk about what depth of field is. Depth of field is referring to how much of your photo is going to be in focus or out of focus depending on your use of depth of field. Lets look at it in a layman's way of thinking about it. Lets say our image is taken from a window looking outside, if everything in the photo is clear and in focus you have a DEEP depth of field. If the flower just outside the window is in focus and the tree 25' away in the image is also in focus that is a deep depth of field. If you were to shoot the same image with a shallow depth of field then maybe just the flower or just the tree is in focus and everything else is out of focus then you have a SHALLOW depth of field.
There are three major things that you affect or change your depth of field, Aperture, focal distance (how close you are to your subject) and the focal length of your lens. All 3 of these affect the depth of field in an image in similar but slightly different ways. I will explain these three in another post starting with Aperture.
Below is an example of how Aperture affects depth of field. Notice the rocks in the foreground, in the top photo the rocks are not in focus but in the bottom photo the rocks are in focus. Each of these images were taken with a different Aperture setting but I will explain this in a future post.
First lets talk about what depth of field is. Depth of field is referring to how much of your photo is going to be in focus or out of focus depending on your use of depth of field. Lets look at it in a layman's way of thinking about it. Lets say our image is taken from a window looking outside, if everything in the photo is clear and in focus you have a DEEP depth of field. If the flower just outside the window is in focus and the tree 25' away in the image is also in focus that is a deep depth of field. If you were to shoot the same image with a shallow depth of field then maybe just the flower or just the tree is in focus and everything else is out of focus then you have a SHALLOW depth of field.
There are three major things that you affect or change your depth of field, Aperture, focal distance (how close you are to your subject) and the focal length of your lens. All 3 of these affect the depth of field in an image in similar but slightly different ways. I will explain these three in another post starting with Aperture.
Below is an example of how Aperture affects depth of field. Notice the rocks in the foreground, in the top photo the rocks are not in focus but in the bottom photo the rocks are in focus. Each of these images were taken with a different Aperture setting but I will explain this in a future post.
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