Everybody enjoys a nice clear picture with everything captured beautifully, however this can get boring. Maybe something in the background or in a corner to entice the audience’s vision. One of these techniques is depth of field. Depth of field is the detail in the background of your target. This can be detailed or shallow. What that means is your target is captured with the background intentionally blurred out slightly or by a lot. This is shallow depth of field. It brings greater focus to the target by zoning out everything else in the image. Even so it can be interesting to look at the background. Detailed depth of field is more like a regular picture with the target still very much in the spotlight however the background is not blurred.

The main component for this type of art is the aperture. The lower the aperture the wider the cameras hole becomes, these effects the degree of shallowness in the background. So, the best setting to have your camera in would be Tv, that way the shutter speed automatically sets itself and you can focus and adjusting the background. The distance between you and the subject and background also greatly effects the resulting image. The closer you are to the target the easier it is to control the depth of field. To blur the background you’d want to be closer to the target. To have the background sharp and detailed you’d want to take a more general picture from more of a distance.