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Have you been hanging around some photo buffs and heard them drop these terms? Found them in your manual and wondering what the heck they mean? In a nutshell, Depth of Field will help you create photographs that are more artistic and creative.
See, photographs are made by letting light into your camera. Without light, no image. The APERTURE is the tiny hole in your camera that lets the light through.
The size of that hole creates something called Depth of Field, which is basically how much of your image will appear in focus. The bigger the aperture hole, the smaller the depth of field. The smaller the aperture hole the greater the depth of field.
Clear as mud? (Or should I say “sharp as a shallow depth of field photograph”?) Check out this tutorial on shallow depth of field for more info and examples.