04-13-2010, 05:47 PM
In keeping with the thread below, I was privately mumbling today about how DoF is apparently dead in photo-journalism. In a sense; I realize it has not completely disappeared, but it's far less prevalent with all of the high sensitivity cameras in existence.
Photogs have traditionally used the limitations of the film speed as a compositional tool, sometimes to great effect. Of course, one could today shoot at high shutter speeds and large apertures even with a digital. But I don't see that type of image as much and the reason, I'll guess, has a good deal to do with the fact that it must be willfully executed.
In fact, while we're talking DoF, we can also cite the lack of strobes at press conferences, etc. That is a good thing, however.
Photogs have traditionally used the limitations of the film speed as a compositional tool, sometimes to great effect. Of course, one could today shoot at high shutter speeds and large apertures even with a digital. But I don't see that type of image as much and the reason, I'll guess, has a good deal to do with the fact that it must be willfully executed.
In fact, while we're talking DoF, we can also cite the lack of strobes at press conferences, etc. That is a good thing, however.