Depth of field in cinematography

     Hello Friends! welcome back to my blog. This week we are talking about the different depths of field in cinematography. I have taken images from a movie and created my own stills to show examples of deep focus, shallow focus, and soft focus.

1a. Still from The rules of the Game, 1939, shows 
deep focus by giving you the foreground,
middle ground and background.

1b. This still shows shallow focus.

1c. This still shows soft focus.

2a. This still shows dep focus because everything 
is in focus. There is a foreground, middle ground,
and background.

2b. This still shows shallow focus because the 
objects in front are blurry so we focus on the chair 
in the back.

2c. This still shows soft focus because everything
In the image is soft, there are no hard lines. This
gives the image a dreamlike feel.

    3.    This blog was rushed so I didn't spend a lot of time on my photos. I looked up examples of focus shots from movies online and The Rules of the Game was one of those movies. I was unsure if the shallow focus still really showed a shallow focus because really only the bed frame was out of focus. The viewer is already looking at the 2 characters in the back. The soft focus still I felt kind of iffy on because the entire shot was blurry, but that is supposed to show they are in motion and not so much showing emotion. For my deep and shallow focus shot I used the selective focus feature on my camera. The soft focus still I used the pro camera feature on my phone after playing with the settings to try and get the image to be dreamlike and cloudy.