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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.
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.....you had me scared for a moment....thought it said 'RIP: playing the field'......
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photography was killed by roll film
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You had me concerned about a more critical optical faculty, I thought your eyesight was going bad, and you were forced (like the rest of us bats) to get set up with prescription corrective eyewear.
Your eyes are still good, right?
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I shoot with the aperture as wide open as I can get it, unless I really need to get more stuff in focus.
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Agree 100%. When I take a picture, DoF is one of my primary concerns - the old rule of "f8 and be there" works for photojournalism, but when I am shooting products I want everything to be clear.
Like this:
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DoF will be dead when physics dies. Sometime you need shallow depth of field sometimes you don't. It has noting to do with digital.
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Jamie,
Do you have a special password that authorizes you to upload porn photos like that?
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One of the most difficult things to teach. I think it's easier to learn the relationship between dof and aperture settings on an old camera with the f-stops on the lens barrel. There's a mind-body connection there whereas setting an f-stop on an lcd screen; especially with the myriad numbers; is more difficult.
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Can a photographic-retard like myself politely request a laymans definition of "Depth of Field" in this context?
Preferably one using small words?
Thanks :-)
