Depth Of Field in Photography

Video Transcript

" Hello I am Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now you got your full body shots, which include your feet to the head, head to toe. Alright you want to watch your head room, do not want to have too head room or too much foot room, but you also want to allow enough room around the picture for cropping. Then, you have the three-quarter shot. You have your half shot okay, you have the close-up shot and your extreme close-up shot, which is primarily and very popularly used for head shots. Do not over saturate the picture at all. What I I mean by that is do not have your subjects so far away that you ca not really get a good detail of the person but all you are seeing is the surroundings that are there with it. Now let’s talk a little bit about depth field. What we are talking about there is showing more of a 3D atmosphere or something that is going to give you a view of the close-up of the image and a softness or a blur or out of focus of the distance. Now, you can also reverse that by focusing in on the distant object making the closer object look a little blurred. Now, you can give very creative with that and have a lot of fun with different types of variations of the depth of field, it will look lot more appealing and overall a better pictures. "