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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
I don't think that DOF makes or breaks a shot - but I do think it's an important element. DOF is a tool within the photographers tool box. Learning to control it is important to your growth as an accomplished photographer. People who don't understand or appreciate DOF are simply uneducated about the art and science of photography.
Regarding the picture - I love the DOF but not too crazy about how you cropped off the girls face in the background : /
Here's a screencap from a recent video I shot with the very delicious Sunny Leone. I've used DOF to bring the viewers eye to the area of the screen where I want him to look. The face for me in this shot is not as important as the pussy area - that's why I decided to throw the face out of focus. Cinematographers use this technique all the time in the movies to draw attention to things that they want to emphasis.
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Make or break a shot in regards to what the individual photographer is going for... if I took a shot say of a bottle of rum next to a diet coke can (just because it's the first thing I came across in my photobucket account) and everything is in focus, then all you get from it is that it's some drunk ass taking pictures of what he's doing for the night.
You take the same picture, and accentuate depth
and it brings the bottle into the focus of the image, and you get that "oh ok" factor of "that's what he was going for."
I definitely fucked up cropping her face out, I did that in the actual shot... just happened like that and the picture didn't really look like anything spectacular until I went back and looked at it... I would have reshot it if I'd known it had depth like that.
LOVE that shot, crazy you did it with video, I've been taking snap-shots for years and am teaching myself how to take "good" pictures, but I'm pretty much fux0r3d on video at the moment. Haven't really had a chance to sit down with someone who knows what he's doing to be able to learn from him.
Definitely appreciate the post from you, Dean.