Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

Deep depth of field

Deep and meaningful

For other examples:

Ansel Adams p. 8

Edward Burtynsky p. 17

Lars Tunbjörk p. 24

Joel Sternfeld p. 68

Jeanloup Sieff p. 88

Here Richard Misrach photographs the scars left behind by military testing sites in the Nevada desert. Stretching into the distance, debris litters the landscape, like bones in an elephant graveyard, while in the foreground a bomb crater takes on the appearance of a vividly coloured hot spring. But rather than teaming with life, this toxic pool symbolizes only man-made death and destruction.

A narrow aperture (high f-number) causes everything from the foreground through to the background to be in focus.

This is an example of a deep depth of field and here it’s helping to communicate ...