DEPTH OF FIELD

By Csenge

This image has a large aperture, this

means the hole in the lens has widened.
Letting in a small field of depth. As you can
see only the middle ish of the bench is in
focus the rest is blurry. This gives an really
affective feature where the photographer
has purposely wanted people to realise the
detail of the bench in particular.

Whereas on this image the aperture is

fairly small. This means that the depth of
feel is big because the hole in the lens has
gotten tiny. So a lot more things are in
focus through out the entire photograph.
Most regular images retaken either on
holiday or on a night out on a phone or
compact will look like this with a bug depth
of field, because the photographer just
wants to capture a moment instead of take
a professional shot.

f4

f11

f22

WHAT IS DOF? ( DEPTH OF

FIELD)

Depth of field is a range between areas of an

image being and not being in focus. The
picture on the left of the flowers has a
shallow depth of field as only the main flower
in the middle is in focus. This may be to
create an effect not because of the quality of
the lens. On the other hand the right image
has a larger depth of filed as the other 2
flowers and the grass is a lot more focused.
When theres a large depth of field the hole in
the lens has gone really small when theres a
shallow depth of field the whole is bigger.

WHAT IS APERTURE?
Dictionary definition:
Aperture : noun
opening, hole, or gap.

plural noun: apertures

an

"the bell ropes passed through apertures in the

ceiling
synonyms: opening, hole, gap, space, slit, slot,
vent, passage, crevice, chink, crack, fissure,
perforation, breach, eye, interstice; More
technical orifice, foramen a space through which
light passes in an optical or photographic
instrument, especially the variable opening by
which light enters a camera.
"a refracting telescope with an aperture of 3
inches"

How aperture changes the depth of field?

The aperture is the size of the whole in the
lens. Its what the setting is called on a
camera. And the f number is the
measurement. So a large aperture would
be a big hole with a small number this
would have a shallow depth of field
meaning only one thing generally in the
centre of the picture will be in focus. If this
aperture is changed to a large f number
with a small number leaving everything in

HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHER

COULDVE GOT A SHALLOWER
DEPTH OF FIELD.

They could have zoomed in or

taken the photo closer to the
girl to have the for and back
ground blurry
The photographer couldve
changed the f number to
around 4 or 5 making the
aperture massive.

PROBLEMS WITH LARGE

DOF!
Problems with a picture taken with for
example f22 there can be a lack of light, so
the picture will be very dark. And can suffer
from camera shake this is because:

o When the lens has to focus on every thing In

the image in can take a while to do so and if
you dont have a steady hand and it moves
slightly it can disturb the image when the
shutter closes.
o It also isnt that easy for the camera to focus
and something that tends to happen is that
the lens doesnt have the capacity to do so
many thing so the photo ends up a little
darker than if the f number was 8 lets say.