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Old 05-30-2009, 10:03 AM
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I want to explain to somw 14-15 year olds Depth Of Field, ISO, Shutter speed S-stops etc... Are there any pdf's or diagrams that are real simple, I tried to explain DOF to them and they just looked at me as tumble weed went past me !
At least DoF is easy enough. Get them to pick up a pencil, put it a foot from their face and look at it. Then point out that the background is blurry. That's a shallow DoF! Then get them to look at something far away and see that everything's in focus. Wide DoF!
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