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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i don't find it ridiculous at all. fact is photogs copycat your style. imo, you were the one who made this type of shot popular with those who try and emulate your style. they see a dean dof shot and think they must do a dof shot, with little regard to the context or audience or what it takes to put together such a picture, let alone video.
thus the original pic having 1/2 a head shot and a crazy tight dof. it's hard to get this shot right, especially with a camera lacking dof preview. but here we are discussing dof as a porn shot.
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Dean is a good photographer, but he didn't invent this little trick nor is he the one who made it popular. Fact of the matter is there is depth of field in every photograph. Some just accentuate it. My bg is film making and it is used all the time. The most interesting use of it is the famous shot in Jaws where the the camera dollies in on the subject while pulling wide on the zoom simultaneously.
Mostly the audience never notices it. It just is. It is just another way of highlighting something you think is interesting. That is what makes a photographer different than a happy snapper. Making interesting decisions. In our case it is done to make someone horny and the curious thing is every customer seems to know exactly what makes every man on the planet horny and it always seems to be what he loves. I have customers that only want to see close ups of metal garter clips. Plastic ones are a turn off. So, they get pictures of said clips with a hugely shallow depth of field. Different "strokes" as they say.