From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
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Deepening depth of field - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
Deepening depth of field
In the last movie, you saw how you can use a tilt-shift lens to greatly decrease depth of field. We used it to create a toy effect. You can also use it for more practical things. You can use it for throwing backgrounds out very easily, to create really shallow depth of field effects. We're going to do the opposite here. We're going to use it to expand the depth of field. Now, you can't use it to expand depth of field in just any situation, but you can in a situation like this, where your camera is at an angle to your focal plane. So take a look at what we have got here. If I look through my camera, I see that I have these two lenses. This lens up here is out of focus and so is that one. So I'm going to start by focusing my lens here, and I'm going to focus on this frontmost lens. So, again, this is a tilt-shift lens, so it's manual. So I'm just working until that's in focus. It looks like it is. Now, look at the lens in the background, the long telephoto lens. It's still out of focus.…
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