How Do You Shoot For Depth Of Field?
• Make it work for you. You will always have some type of DOF in your shots so make it work for you, not against you. • Use the modes that your camera came with. That is the quickest and easiest way to get the right depth of field. • Learn what controls your depth of field and how. • Aperture • Examples of apertures A smaller aperture (F/22) will increase the DOF and a larger aperture {F2) will decrease the DOF. • One way to make sense of the ‘aperture dilemma’ is to put it into a fraction. One half (F2) is going to be much larger than one twenty-second (F22). • Focal Length • Shorter focal length (50mm) will increase the depth of field and longer focal length (200mm) will decrease it. • Note: The lens lengths are given as examples and not what would define the focal lengths. • Focusing distance • Greater focusing distances (shooting further away from you) increase depth of field ), while shorter focusing distances (shooting closely, like in macro) decrease it. • Aperture/DOF scale Use
