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Correcting depth-of-field issues

Correcting depth-of-field issues

From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Correcting depth-of-field issues

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- [Instructor] The technical side to photography is always a juggling act. You don't want your shutter speed to go too low because then maybe you'll have motion blur in your image, but you don't want your aperture to go too wide because then you'll maybe have a depth of field problem or just general diffusion or diffraction artifacts in your image, blah, blah, blah. I can go on and on and on. You're always balancing lots of different parameters. That juggling act comes more to the fore when you're working in low light because you've got less of a safety net. Your margins are smaller. You're going to really be trying to ride the edge of just how low your shutter speed can go before things get too blurry, but you need more light so you're opening your aperture but you don't want to crank your ISO up too much 'cause you don't want noise, and so on and so forth. Well, the two things that you're most likely to run into are your shutter speed wasn't fast enough, so your image is soft or…

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