DEEP
Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia, 1989
Depth of field is one of photography’s most useful qualities, because it determines how much of any scene appears sharp, and it’s controllable. The first control is the aperture—stop down for more—but it also involves choosing the lens focal length. The wider the angle, the better chance you have of making absolutely everything in view pin-sharp at a small aperture. However, focal length and aperture are only tools for helping with the idea of deep, as seen here, in one of Angkor’s ruined temples. The idea is pulling together the different scales of a scene into one image, from the leaves and texture of an ...
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