Low depth of field photography

Several factors determine the "look" of your photos. Composition is the most obvious factor, but camera focus and depth of field are also very important.

This is "Depth of View" because it focuses on the hand and the girl in the back is blurry.

This is an example of maximum depth of field. The image was taken low enough to obtain all the bicycles as well as making sure they are all in focus, creating as if the bicycles never end.

New York Street at Night, vivid colors with copy space available. New york city street at night low view with shallow depth of field. A yellow taxi cab vehicle stock photo

Depth of field, framing (literally)

Michael Kenna Photographer

Over my nearly twenty years of teaching university photography classes, I’ve come to discover that one area that students often have the hardest time mastering is depth of field. Whereas beginning students usually manage to work well with their cameras in manual mode, which forces them to make their own selections of apertures and shutter […]

Depth of Field

The use of depth of field in photography is explained in simple easy to understand terms.