Depth of Field

Depth of field

DEPTH OF FIELD:

The depth of field in a shot refers to the distance between the closest and furthest thing in frame. It's controlled by the aperture, or the amount of light let into the shot through the lens. Aperture is measured in f-stops. f/2.6 is the widest lens and f/16 is the smallest. 

WIDE

Wide depth of field shows everything in a shot

in the same amount of detail.

SHALLOW

Shallow depth of field focuses on something

in the foreground whilst the background is

blurred and out of focus.

MY ATTEMPT

I experimented on manual focus using the camera, getting shots using different f-stops and focus shifts and put them together in this video to help demonstrate everything I learnt.