From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Setting the depth of field

Setting the depth of field

From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Setting the depth of field

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Now that you've got the basics of camera movement down, let's explore some actual cinematography options and tweak the camera settings for aesthetic purposes. To start, I want you to open up a new project. This project will be located inside of the folder here, Chapter 09, select the Adjusting Camera's project. This will bring you into two new projects. One is a build up on what you were previously working with. Now if you look at this, it's a little bit fancier. I'm going to go to two views here for a moment and explain what's different. Let's take a look from the top here and you might notice one thing right away and that is there's an actual floor. We talked about this technique earlier of adding a flat plane along the bottom. Let's view this from Custom View 1 and you start to see what's happening a little bit better. All right, let's take a look. What we've got here are a few options. We've got a sky in the background…

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