The trap of shallow depth of field

The trap of shallow depth of field

One of the first photography lessons you learn along the way is the impact of shallow depth of field. Its effect on an image — an aesthetically pleasing blur that separates the background from the subject — easily sets your camera photos apart from snapshots taken with smartphones or cheaper cameras. In the video above, however, Jamie Windsor cautions us from shooting wide open all the time. As Windsor said, the tendency for many photographers g…