This is what's called deep depth of field and shallow depth of field. Find out how to take full control of this in-camera photography effect and answer any lingering questions you may have.

Deep focus (or deep depth of field, as we would call it today) was dependent on innovations in technology. Faster filmstock and powerful carbon arc lamps enabled Toland to shoot between f8 and f16 ...

Shallow depth of field is another tool you can add to your filmmaking arsenal and carry around with you. It's a term you can use in meetings, add to your shot list, and use to move the audience.

Here, the depth of field is so shallow, that the girl’s eyes are in focus but her eyebrows are not, meaning the depth of field is only a fraction of an inch deep.

There’s certainly valid reasons to want to have shallow depth-of-field, as filmmaker Stu Maschwitz wrote on his blog: “With a 5D Mark II, its sensor double the size of a motion picture film frame, we ...

Now that we have some distance from that first novelty of large-sensor cinematography we can think more intelligently about how depth of field – be it shallow or deep – is best used to help tell our ...

Deep versus shallow depth of field. Put simply, depth of field refers to how much depth in your image is in focus. If objects both close to and far away from he camera are sharp, ...

A Shallow Depth of Field 'Harrison's Flowers' Saves Its Sympathy for the Wrong Victims of War. March 14, 2002 More than ...

Overall, if you want to create the look of shallow depth of field without breaking out Photoshop, it's a fun option. SynthCam is available for $1, right now, in the iTunes App Store.