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Depth of Field: Camera Angle and Focal Length

Depth of Field: Camera Angle and Focal Length

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Depth of Field: Camera Angle and Focal Length

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All right, well here we're going to capture some more portraits of Kelly. And in this segment, I want to talk about camera angle and also focal length and how that affects depth of field. When I first capture an image, in this case, a little, little less than eye level of Kelly, she's a little above me. And here I'm shooting at F/2.8, and you can see the look that we can create at this camera height and that camera setting. Now, if I ask Kelly to kneel, if you'll just kneel down for a second. What I'll do is compose another shot with the same camera settings here. What we can start to see is that all of a sudden, we have a completely different look, because the lavender's now filling up the entire frame. So sometimes you'll use different camera angles to make the subject look better, and other times to just compose a different shot. All right, what about focal length and depth of field? Here I'm going to get lower and in this lower position I want to shoot a couple of different ways…

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