Aperture Control / depth of field
OBJECTIVE:
Students will be required to shoot imagery illustrating a technical understanding of Shallow and Full Depths of field. Students will be expected to set up their scenes utilizing the aperture to help draw the viewer's attention to a particular area of interest within the frame. through the camera's ability to capture the image entirely (crisply from foreground to background) or only partly in focus (defining the focal point and depth of the image through both crisp and soft areas of focus in the composition).
Students will be required to shoot imagery illustrating a technical understanding of Shallow and Full Depths of field. Students will be expected to set up their scenes utilizing the aperture to help draw the viewer's attention to a particular area of interest within the frame. through the camera's ability to capture the image entirely (crisply from foreground to background) or only partly in focus (defining the focal point and depth of the image through both crisp and soft areas of focus in the composition).
VOCABULARY:
- Aperture – When using aperture as your main focus for an image, remember that two things are happening: the amount of light into the camera is changing (so your shutter will have to compensate to get the proper exposure), and that which ever aperture you chose to use will determine how much of your image is really in focus on the negative. (NOTE: Aperture numbers on your lens work in reverse---the largest number that remembers the most information is actually the smallest opening for light and vice versa.)
- Shallow Depth of Field – a picture taken with a smaller aperture number to insure that a part of the image will fade into being out of focus or slightly “soft” on the negative. NOTE: This does not mean that the image necessarily looks out of focus when you are composing the image. (F4 and lower)
- Full Depth of Field – a picture taken using a larger aperture number to insure that all of the image that was captured on the negative is sharply in focus. (F16 and higher)
Student Examples