Anyone Play With Depth of Field?

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Anyone Play With Depth of Field?

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Here are a few screen shots from "These Feeble Fields" my 10 minute short for some film festivals. But this is the first film I've ever really tried using some depth of field techniques. Check it out and tell me what you think.

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Nicely done, very crisp looking.
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Ahhh looks fooking excellent! My camera is bog standard meaning you either get everything in focus or not :(
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Post by Carnage7p »

you can't turn off auto focus on your cam?
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Yeah but if you have a bog standard camera you can't get a nice depth of field unless you play around with lighting
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Hey thanks alot guys, I find it one of those fun things just to play with to give your films a more professional look.
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Post by I3lade203 »

Ahh sweetness! Post the full film when it's done!! Yeah, and it would give it more profesinal of a look, but nobody ever listens to anything around here anyway...
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I shall post it when it's done (mid-February) and yes, it is another WWII film. Suck it up!
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nice. I'm lookin forward to this.
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Post by Mushiman »

The DOF is nice, now we have an XL1 we can use DOF too, & it's easy to acheive with the XL1 too.

Not interested in the film tho as it's a war film & i hate them, nice images tho.
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Post by october »

i have a hard time taking the wwii films seriously when the soldiers are being played by really young kids... but your shots look good...
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Check this out, another shot consists of a flag and some lights in the background during the "swing party" scene, it's one shot; starting off with it out of focus then focusing on the flag.
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Post by Mushiman »

I think you're getting a little too excitied, we used to do that 10 years ago.
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Hey! I've had my camera for two years now and I just barely figured out how to fully use the manual focus, so give me a break. Plus you can't say it doesn't look cool.
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Post by crb »

I like the macro focus on the DVX100A, not as much for depth of field, but that I could get a good look of tears, blood, etc close up really well. God a shot of my eye close up once with the macro focus and it looked really clear.
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The bigger the apature, that smaller the depth of field... which you cannot change on these crappy consumer cameras! :|
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