Selective focusing
A method of focusing using a wide aperture to ensure shallow depth of field and put emphasis on an individual area of a scene.
Selective focusing
Techniques Glossary Selective focusing
A method of focusing using a wide aperture to ensure shallow depth of field and put emphasis on an individual area of a scene.
Selective focusing.
Isolate the subject from potentially intrusive objects around it by increasing the aperture and reducing the depth of field.
Framing and lead lines.
Selective Focusing: In the same vein, photographers often use selective focusing to help direct a viewer's attention to a particular point in the image -- despite the fact that the unaided eye of the photographer does not have selective focus.
Selective focusing - method of adjusting the lens aperture and shutter speed to give a depth of field that will limit image sharpness to a particular area of the image.
Lines
Shape, form, pattern and texture
Balance and symmetry
Perspective and scale
Depth of field and selective focusing
Colors and color combinations ...
"Slow" film - say, speeds below 100 ISO/ASA - can be used for slow shutter speeds - for deliberate blurring of motion, or large apertures to give small depths of field for selective focusing.
These two devices helped to build a consumer market for digital photography that today includes digital photo frames, photo printers and new digital SLR cameras with lenses that allow for selective focusing.
Long-focal-length lenses are more effective for selective focusing because of their larger real apertures.
 See also: Focusing, Focus, Selective focus, Depth of field, Image
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