From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Depth of field and focusing

Depth of field and focusing

From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Depth of field and focusing

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- When speaking about depth of field we speak of an actual depth using any type of measurement you like to use. It's best to stick with feet or meters. I have here an online depth of field calculator. There are a lot of these online. You can just google for depth of field calculator. You'll also find depth of field calculators that'll run on your smart phone. You do not have to use one of these to shoot shallow depth of field. They can be very handy in certain situations, particularly macro shooting, but they are also just a good teaching tool in this case. This depth of field calculator shows me how deep my depth of field will be for a particular lens focused to a particular distance using a particular aperture. You can see here that I have dialed in a Canon seven D, with a 50 millimeter lens on it, at F11 with a subject distance, that means the distance that I focusing to, of 10 feet. And that gives me a total depth of field of five and a half feet. It's very important to understand…

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