There are lots of different filmmaking terms out there that get tossed around in articles and meetings. It can be hard to keep track of all of them.

Since the arrival of the Canon 5D Mark II, shallow depth-of-field has become almost a fetish. There’s certainly valid reasons to want to have shallow depth-of-field, as filmmaker Stu Maschwitz wrote ...

Someone realised that if you first projected your image onto a ground glass screen – say, the screen you might find inside a 35mm SLR film camera - then re-filmed it onto video, something magical ...

This example shows the same image shot with deep depth of field (top), and shallow depth of field (bottom). In the lower image with the soft background, the depth of field is about two or three ...

When there's a short distance the depth of field is shallow or narrow. The ability to use depth of field creatively is one of the most useful tools in a photographer's skill set.

Last week, I talked about framing and the rule of thirds. This week, we’ll take a closer look at composition, and in particular, depth of field. Depth of field is a term that is thrown around a lot in ...