Chapter 14. Controlling What’s in Focus

Why You Need this Chapter

If you want to create decent photos, it’s essential to make sure your main subject is in focus. However, that isn’t as easy as it sounds. For example, if you’re shooting landscapes, you want everything (or almost everything) in the frame to be in sharp focus (see Figure 14.1). However, for portraits, you want to blur out the background (see Figure 14.2).

Narrow (f/20) aperture helps keep this sunset in sharp focus.

Figure 14.1. Narrow (f/20) aperture helps keep this sunset in sharp focus.

Wide (f/5.6) aperture blurs the background for a great portrait.

Figure 14.2. Wide (f/5.6) aperture blurs the background for ...

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