From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Correcting depth-of-field issues
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Correcting depth-of-field issues
By now you should be comfortable with a balancing act that is low-light photography. Of course, in any type of photography you are always balancing, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, depth of field, motion stopping, but in low-light shooting you are really pushing the bounds of those things, and sometimes it's hard to keep it all in order. I ran into a problem the other night, at the theatersports show. If you look at this image here, you'll see that I have a depth-of-field problem. Really soft focus back here but not here. Now a lot of times you might be reviewing an image and find a focus problem and think oh no, my auto focus on my camera isn't working. Here it is, to my eye, plainly a depth-of- field problem because I do have good focus. It's just not very deep. I can confirm that though by going and checking out my metadata. I am at f/8.0, which seems like it should be pretty deep, but still, I have got this softness back here. I don't think he was moving, so whatever the case, I…
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Correcting white balance8m 49s
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Correcting white balance with a gray card3m 50s
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Correcting white balance of JPEG images2m
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Blending exposures with different white balances7m 13s
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Brightening shadows9m 8s
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Reducing noise7m 44s
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Sharpening9m 14s
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Correcting depth-of-field issues9m 32s
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Correcting night skies6m 39s
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