3rd Outing: Test Footage - Depth of Field

Summary

One of the techniques we experimented with whilst filming was the use of depth of field and focus to add interesting effects to the footage, we were shooting with Canon 5D cameras at an aperture of F/5 a wide aperture that would have sharp focus on objects near the camera lens and shallow focus on objects further away. So we decided to experiment with this aperture to try and create some interesting shots such as with tracking shots, establishing shots and static shots of a subject.


Depth of Field test from Lewis Mercer on Vimeo.

For this shot we used a wide aperture of f/2.6 on a static tripod so that the background to the shot was out of focus and blurred, so that when the subject approached the camera they would gradually come into focus, as well as an ISO of at least 800 and white balance of 8000k since also whilst filming this we were working in overcast weather conditions. This footage can be seen as new wave as it is using an innovative use of camera to track a subject and uses an inventive use of camera settings and depth of field to track the subject.