Shallow depth of field is another tool you can add to your filmmaking arsenal and carry around with you. It's a term you can use in meetings, add to your shot list, and use to move the audience.

But shallow depth of field is also handy any time you need a way to separate a subject from a busy background—street shooting, event shooting, ...

Since the arrival of the Canon 5D Mark II, shallow depth-of-field has become almost a fetish. There’s certainly valid reasons to want to have shallow depth-of-field, as filmmaker Stu Maschwitz wrote ...

This is what's called deep depth of field and shallow depth of field. Find out how to take full control of this in-camera photography effect and answer any lingering questions you may have.

A shallow depth of field has been used to draw attention to the subject, garden designer Mark Lane. The background (Geffrye Museum Garden) is blurred to create a pleasing artistic effect.

Deep focus (or deep depth of field, as we would call it today) was dependent on innovations in technology. Faster filmstock and powerful carbon arc lamps enabled Toland to shoot between f8 and f16 ...

In theory, that would mean a shallow depth of field. In practice, however, almost everything will be in focus unless you’re standing very close to the subject – and that’s because camera ...