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    Basic Photography | Creative Use of Depth of Field

    © 2008 Wazari Wazir | Little Fingers | Using Depth of Field Creatively Depth of field (DOF) by definition is the amount of your image that’s in focus or in another words is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus or sharp. There is a long discussing about depth of field on the internet, most of the discussion is more towards technical aspect of it rather than how you can use creative depth of field to your advantage. To make it easy for you, there are three things that will affect the depth of field, those thing are the size of Aperture that you use,…

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    Basic Photography Tips | Creative Use of Depth of Field

    © 2011 Wazari Wazir | Creative Use of Depth of Field | Motherhood | f1.8 | 1/640 | 50mm Lens Basically Depth of field (DOF) is the amount of your image that’s in focus. It is also refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on lens type, aperture and focusing distance. Depth of field (DOF) also is the distance in front and beyond the object that is in focus. Generally speaking also, if we want to  get a greater Depth of Field, which is to have sharp image from foreground to background, you need to use smaller aperture like f8 and above to get everything sharp or…