Meeting on November 25, 2018

Andrei Tarkovsky writes in his book “Sculpting in Time”: “The author's handwriting must not be heavy, or underlined or copper-plate ”. Really, how many creators are falling for these things trying to put more artistic value in their creations? But in this way, they end up lowering them… We started our meeting with this deduction and with similar subjects for conversation.

Right after we dealt with a technical matter that is really important in photography: depth of field. After we studied it in theory, we did some practice on the 3 factors that affect it.

The focal length of the lens does appear to have a significant impact on depth of field. A telephoto lens can make the depth of field appear more shallow and a wide lens  can make the depth of field appear deeper.

Using the aperture (f-stop) of your lens is another way to control your depth of field. The larger the aperture, the shallower the depth of field. The smaller the aperture, the deeper the depth of field.

 The third factor that affects the depth of field is the distance between the camera and our subject. The closer we are to our subject, the shallower the depth of field is and the further away we are from our subject the deeper the depth of field is.

If we combine all of these 3 factors together, the differences can be dramatic, as you can see in the following photos: