“Knowing how to control depth of field gives you the opportunity to choose how much of (and what parts of) your image you want to bring into focus.” - Mastin Labs

Set your f stop to a high number (for example, f/11). This will narrow your aperture, and you will let very little light into the lens. To compensate and to avoid having an underexposed image, you will need to shoot slower by adjusting your shutter speed. Your resulting depth of field will be deep.

Finally, as mentioned in the beginning of this article, aspheric lenses are also an option for some contact lens wearers. However, the performance of aspheric contact lenses, when compared with that of aspheric glasses, may leave something to be desired. Many find that regular, spherical contact lenses work just as well, if not better than the newer aspherical contact lenses do. With two primary options of aspheric contact lens prescriptions being bifocal and multifocal, visual aberrations can be corrected in the wearer. However, visual contrast may reduce slightly, while glare caused by driving at night may increase - particularly for those who wear multifocal aspheric contacts. For these reasons, aspheric contact lenses may not be for everyone.

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As a landscape photographer, you capture sweeping images of oceans capes, mountainsides, skylines, and wilderness. Your photos thrive on dramatic details viewed from close up and far away: Trees, birds, blades of grass are brought into focus to set the perfect stage.

Deep depth of field is a great way to bring out detail in a large portion of the frame. Deep depth of field is commonly used in landscape photography to capture elements and textures in the majority of the frame throughout many vertical planes. To capture fine detail and deep depth of field, you should use a wide-angle lens to shoot at a distance and set your f stop at a high number for a small aperture.

Inversely, when you shoot the same subject at closer distance (physically, or with a closer focal length), you’ll notice a shallower depth of field.

Set your f-stop to a low number (for example, f/2.8). This will widen your aperture, and you will allow a lot of light into the lens. To compensate for the flood of light you need to shoot faster by adjusting your shutter speed. Your resulting depth of field will be shallow.

To gain a top-level understanding of how you can achieve shallow or deep depth of field by controlling aperture, here is a quick overview of aperture and its related elements: F-stop, shutter speed, and depth of field.

Referring back to the example in the introduction, landscape photographers typically want to capture a deep depth of field, where most of the image is in focus, from the foreground to the background. Portrait photographers typically want a shallow depth of field, where a smaller plane of detail in an image is sharpened, and any distractions in the background that may take away from the detail of the face are blurred.

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The technology behind aspheric glasses and contact lenses is directly related to advances made in camera lens technology. Just like the human eye, some camera lenses are shaped in such a way that visual aberrations and distortion can occur in the images they capture. The shape of the eye can also contribute to distorted vision. That’s why lenses are specially designed to balance and correct for the unique shape of a person’s eye—and why the technology has had to come a rather long way.

While traditional lenses have gone far to help the millions of people who suffer from farsightedness or nearsightedness, they add a marked spherical, convex curvature to the shape of the lens. This can distort the appearance of the eyes and facial areas. Traditional convex lenses can create a magnifying, bug-eyed effect on farsighted prescriptions or a minimizing, beady-eyed effect on nearsighted prescriptions. This noticeable curvature of the lens distorts the appearance of the wearer and the glasses alike, detracting from overall perceived attractiveness while also dealing an unnecessary blow to self-confidence.

Aspheric lenses are slimmer, flatter optical lenses compared to traditional prescription lenses. These lenses are available in both glasses and contacts, making more stylish options available to prescription lens wearers than ever.

While distance plays a large role in depth of field, knowing how to adjust the f-stop to compensate for distance is often a much more convenient way to achieve your desired depth of field. This is especially true in landscape photography, where moving farther from a subject in any significant way is much more difficult than it is in close-up photography.

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If the word aspheric is new to you, we’ll break down everything you need to know about what aspheric lenses are, how they work, and the benefits and drawbacks of wearing them. By the end of this article, you’ll feel primed and ready to discuss aspheric lenses with your doctor if they are of interest to you.

Learning to control depth of field will help you bring focus to the most important parts of your images and will greatly improve the technical and aesthetic quality of your photos.

Aperture is not infinite; all lenses have their limits, which are clearly defined by the manufacturer. Manufacturers state a minimum and maximum range that the lens can be shot.

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Your eye shape is unique to you and you alone; this means that your lenses, whether aspheric prescription or non-prescription, must be customized to your unique eye shape. An experienced optometrist can assess your vision needs and recommend the most appropriate and flattering lenses for you. Get in touch with our team today to discuss your interest in aspheric lenses!

In general, many people with moderate to high need of vision correction for nearsightedness or farsightedness can benefit from the advances of aspheric lenses, particularly if worn in prescription glasses. Those with lower prescriptions will not see noticeable improvements to make the cost of aspheric lenses worthwhile. While some may want to try aspheric contact lenses, particularly those with bifocal rather than multifocal prescriptions, the benefits are mixed and should be discussed with your eye doctor. Those with astigmatism may not benefit as high as others and may be better off discussing toric lens options. Finally, aspheric lenses are a good option for many who use non-prescription reading glasses, too! If your readers are at a high reading power of +4.00 or higher, you may want to explore aspheric options.

Simply explained, the term 'depth of field' refers to the area of an image that appears to be in focus. As the distance from the focal point increases, the focus gradually decreases until it appears to be out of focus. In any image, there’s a point of absolute focus and a corresponding region of the image surrounding the subject that appears to be in focus.

Depth of field is not equally distributed around the focal point. It is typically distributed unequally, with about 1/3 of the total field of focus lying in front of the subject, and two-thirds of focus lying behind the subject.

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Without getting too technical, it’s important to note that this apparent change in depth of field when applied at a closer or farther distance has everything to do with the portion of the frame that the subject fills. With magnified shots, less of the background is represented in the shot, and the blurred background is magnified, making the image appear to have a shallower depth of field. The inverse effect happens when an image is taken at a farther distance.

By following these tips outlined above, you should now be able to generally control your depth of field to take the images you want. The more you practice and experiment with aperture, distance, and focal length, the more you’ll be able to fine-tune depth of field in your images to enhance your individual photography style.

If you shoot in anything other than a totally controlled environment, you have to know how to adjust your camera for the changing light. Aperture is the part of the lens that controls the amount of light passing through to the camera’s sensor, and its one of the simplest ways to control the depth of field. You can change the access of light by widening and narrowing the diameter of the opening through which light enters the camera.

As you can see, aspheric lenses offer many aesthetic and vision-correcting benefits for their wearers. But just like any prescription, these types of glasses or contact lenses should be thoroughly discussed with your eye doctor to make the best decision for you. Even if you’re considering non-prescription readers with aspheric lenses, it's worth it to mention the change to your doctor.

Not only are ‘coke bottle lenses’ a thing of the past, but aspheric lenses also offer a better degree of vision correction. When wearing traditional lenses, you may notice some visual distortion when you look anywhere other than the direct center of the lens. Aspheric lenses, on the other hand, promote a wider field of vision with better peripheral vision and more consistent overall image magnification, allowing for clearer and more accurate vision. This is the same reason many photographers prefer aspheric camera lenses - a wider field of vision means more of the beautiful world is accurately captured in a single glance.

With the advancement of aspheric lens technology, we now have more glasses frame styles available to more people than ever, with significantly less bulging of the lens and a lightweight feel for comfortable wear. These advanced lenses are cut to a slimmer profile, with much flatter curves that are strategically shaped depending upon the wearer’s prescription. This slim profile means that the glasses frames can sit closer to the face for a much more natural, streamlined look. This is a big advancement for folks with especially high prescriptions. If you’re in the market for aspheric lenses, limited frame materials, shapes, and sizes are no longer an issue, either.

Shallow depth of field is a great way to bring focus to a specific subject to separate it from its background. Shallow depth of field is commonly used in portrait photography and food photography. It is also great for action photography, such as sports and wildlife photography, because it separates the subject from their chaotic background and allows you to shoot with a quick shutter speed to capture crisp detail in action.

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If an image has a deep depth of field, it means its area of perceived focus is a broader and deeper portion of the image. If an image has a shallow depth of field, it means its area of perceived focus is limited to a narrower range.

Understanding depth of field is important and can greatly influence your photography; it helps distinguish the foreground from the background to create a focal point that draws the eye and tells it where to look. Knowing how to control depth of field gives you the opportunity to choose how much of (and what parts of) your image you want to bring into focus.

Wider aperture, when applied at a distance (physically, or with a shorter lens) from the focal point, results in an apparent deeper depth of field than it does when it’s applied to a closer subject.

Another factor to consider is that, due to their flatter profile and closer proximity to the face, aspheric lenses may produce noticeable reflections for some wearers. Anti-reflective coating is recommended for all aspheric lens wearers to eliminate any potential for visual distraction that reflections can cause.

The aperture, as discussed above, is just one element of depth of field. The distance from you to your subject can change your perceived depth of field.

The major disadvantage of aspheric lenses is their price. These advanced vision correcting lenses cost more to manufacture than traditional lenses do, involving more steps, more precision, and more labor. If you have an extremely mild need for vision correction, then aspheric lenses may not be the most logical choice for you.

As a portrait photographer, you’re most concerned with photographing the unique, defining features of your subject; the bright sparkle in an eye, the freckles on a face, the tiny wrinkle in a chin. Images like this aren’t possible without understanding how to use depth of field (also known as focus range) to bring certain parts of your image into focus and blur out what’s less important.