Depth Of Field Quotes

• I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Depth, Movement

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• What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

  W. Eugene Smith

  Feelings, Depth, Use

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• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Sacrifice, Fields

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• I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

  Max Dupain

  Feelings, Depth, Fields

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• Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Important, Want

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.66, New Riders

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• When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

  Gina Bellman

  Depth, Cost, Definitions

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• When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Eye, Space

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• Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

  John Dykstra

  Old School, People, Stuff

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• Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Ideas, Personality

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• I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

  Columbus Short

  Moving, Teaching, School

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• The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

  Brendan Fraser

  Cutting, Glasses, Giving

  "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Romantic, Book, Reflection

  Michael Ondaatje (2007). “Vintage Ondaatje”, p.117, Vintage

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