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10-25-2017, 08:55 PM
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Har har.
He, unfortunately, lived to see the day when art students told him to his face that technique and craft don't matter. But, at least, he was finally pulling in some major bucks for his prints while he was still alive.
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10-26-2017, 09:59 AM
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10-26-2017, 11:42 AM
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I think he is referring to the composition, not the depth of field seems flat.
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10-26-2017, 12:19 PM
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Times change, technology changes, the world around us changes. If it didn't, photography wouldn't be have as important as it is. It is a tool for capturing moments, glimpses of our world never to be repeated. To diminish any one dimension of the craft, or any one persons expression of what that craft means to them, is small minded and foolish. IMO. Quote:
Which is hard to disagree with, and obviously a known weakness of most cameraPHONES due to their optics and tiny sensors. If you want depth in a cameraPHONE picture, you have to get closer, its that simple. Manufacturers had to pick a fixed focal length (or 2, if you have an iphone 7+) when building the phone and decided to go with a wide angle. Reasonably choice given what most people use their cameraPHONES for, but wide angles have weaknesses (distortion, [lack of] depth of field, and lens flare...to name a few). What they do well - landscape and low light (minimizing motion blur due to hand movement) The key to getting the most out of your cameraPHONE (or any camera for that matter) is to understand its strengths and weaknesses. Beyond that, knowing how to post-process an image is crucial, just ask our buddy Ansel tilt-shifting in his grave 
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10-26-2017, 12:42 PM
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Literal depth of field is the plane in acceptable focus. That’s something phone cameras have no problem due to their tiny sensor. Everything is in focus.
Figuratively, a lack of depth (flat image) can be described as not having any pop. In my opinion that means there no clear subject or composition directing your eyes around the image. It’s just a capture, nothing more. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Last edited by ergott; 10-26-2017 at 12:50 PM.
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10-26-2017, 01:26 PM
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He literally said - "What I find missing from most (if not all) of the photo's posted here is depth of field." I think its safe to say he is referring to a lack of isolation of an individual subject [vs a landscape-type scene]...which is something people seem to attribute to a "good photo."
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10-26-2017, 04:24 PM
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That sounds like a recipe for minimizing depth of field. And yet the complaint said the photos were missing depth of field, not that there was too much of it. I think there seems to be some confusion about the actual meaning of "depth of field" here. Per the Wikipedia, "In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field (DOF), also called focus range or effective focus range, is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions." Now if you are saying you can't have a feeling of dimension in a landscape if everything is in sharp focus, then I have to mention Group f/64.  Quite a lot of dimensionality here, I'd say.
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10-26-2017, 04:32 PM
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