A shallow depth of field means that the plane of focus, which is the space around your focal point that looks sharp, is fairly small and there’s lots of background blur. A deeper depth of field gives you much less background blur in your shots. The transition from sharp to blurred is a gradual thing: you won’t see a line going across an
Adding DoF (Depth of Field) to Source FilmMaker is a relatively easy and painless task to accomplish. First of all, we will need our camera to be in the animation set. Make sure you have a scene camera, then click on the button, and chose the "Create Animation Set (s) for Existing Element (s)". There should be a camera named "Camera1". Wider focal lengths create a deeper depth of field. So if you are shooting at 28mm, much more of your scene will be in focus than if you are shooting at 100mm. (This is why I rarely zone focus with lenses longer than 35mm.) Distance to the subject (or point of focus). The further away you focus, the more depth of field there will be in a scene I would like to set a depth of field (lets say about 5m) around the tracked object. When the object moves, the DOF needs to stay constant (at 5m). The distance to the object from the camera is trivial to obtain. This means I need to calculate the aperture and focal length combination that will result in the DOF at said distance.The first thing you need to do is open them all into the same file in Photoshop. You can do this by going to Menu > File > Scripts > Load Files into Stacks. In the pop-up window, set it to use Files and then with the Browse button choose the set of photos you took. Check off the option “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images
This is great if you want to create sharp images, but unfortunate if you'd like to use depth-of-field for artistic purposes. But there are multiple ways to fake it. In this tutorial, we'll create a depth-of-field effect similar to the one found in Unity's post effect stack v2, although simplified as much as possible. Setting the SceneUse a Wide Focal Length. Wide focal length lenses produce deep depth of fields, all else being equal. Shoot at 35mm, and your depth of field will be decently deep. Go to 24mm, and your depth of field will turn even deeper. And at 14mm, keeping an entire scene sharp is easy, even if you use a wide aperture.I really like a deeply washed out background as a backdrop. I expect using a 35mm film camera that f-stops is inversely related to depth of field. I assume this remains true for compound lenses. But now that there is a wide range of sensor sizes I'm not clear when I look at a lens what to anticipate for the depth of field.
Depth of Field is the distance in front of and behind your focal point that is sharp or in other words, in focus. This is also referred to as shallow depth of field (shooting wide open; large aperture, ex. f/1.8) or deep depth of field (shooting closed down; small aperture, ex. f/22). There is a fantastic DOF calculator app called Digital DoFX6en.