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.

At a recent workshop I attended, cinematographer Barry Braverman said: “These things come in waves. In the ’40s the goal was to have maximum depth of field. You look at the work of Gregg Toland, you ...

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In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out ...

Depth of field is a function of a lens' focal length and aperture settings and of the distance of the subject from the lens, Westfall explains. That's old hat to those familiar with photography.