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

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

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Preview depth of field

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- There have been a lot of numbers and a lot of theories thrown around in these discussions of aperture that we've been having but from experience, both as a teacher and a photographer, I can tell you that it's not going to be the theory that trips you up in the field when you start trying to work creatively with depth of field. Rather it's probably going to be your viewfinder that creates problems and that's simply because your viewfinder can deceive you when it comes to depth of field. I want you to think for a minute about how the light is traveling through this camera right now. This is an SLR so the light is coming into the lens, it's being bounced by a mirror up into here where there's a prism or another mirror that's bouncing it out here so that I can see it through the viewfinder. To be able to have enough brightness through the lens to see clearly through the viewfinder, the camera's aperture is open all the way right now. Even if I have dialed in F16, a very small aperture…

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