Here is a video I really enjoyed made by Gabor Tarnok that shows the emotional power of using a short depth of field. The spectacular part is that despite what your eyes are telling you, this was not shot with some $100,000 film or digital high def camera. It was shot with a $750 Canon HV20 and an SGPro 35mm DOF adapter. A brief description of a DOF adapter: It lets your small sensor video camera focus on the film plane of a wide aperture lens that is attached in front of it. This lets your camera that would otherwise only have a very deep depth of field have a much shallower one. If there is interest I’ll go into this further in another post. For now… enjoy Gabor’s video.

At Home from Gabor Tarnok on Vimeo.

I don’t know about you, but watching this video made me feel like I was back in time when I was a kid (I swear I was a kid once, just ask me mum!).

Using a short depth of field along with Gabor’s skilled photographic eye, and a well picked audio track, Mr. Tarnok has taken a home video of his children and made it into a piece of art.

Agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments below.

You can see it in full screen HD over on Vimeo. Just click “At Home” above.

I will be writing an in depth article on using Depth of Field soon. In the meantime I’ve mentioned Depth of Field in these two articles if you’d like to know more.

1. Contrast - The Blood of Life
2.How to Take a Portrait Without a Face

Enjoy!

Del.icio.us | Technorati | Stumble it! | Digg