Are 7D owners amazingly talented or...

Johnny Cola said:
are these "severely flawed" "crippled" "sucky" cameras tapping into something important about the way HUMAN eyes work, the way HUMAN brains process visual information?
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I was just thinking the other day that shallow depth of field is the closest mimic to the way our eyes really see. While our eyeballs take in a deep field of vision, really, only the small, center section of our vision is being rendered with great detail. The further you get from the fovea the less detailed our vision is. Shallow depth of field imagery is a close approximation of how we see things.
 
Also the effect of tilt-shift lenses are similar to peripheral vision but it's a bit too explicit and becomes distracting if overused.

We can focus on an object and make it seem more prominent than the rest, which is what shallow DOF simulates. We can also have a pretty wide field of view from our eyes if necessary. See how close to your head you can put your whole outstretched hand until you can't see all of it. But be careful, hand might begin to strangle you.
 
Batutta said:
I was just thinking the other day that shallow depth of field is the closest mimic to the way our eyes really see. While our eyeballs take in a deep field of vision, really, only the small, center section of our vision is being rendered with great detail. The further you get from the fovea the less detailed our vision is. Shallow depth of field imagery is a close approximation of how we see things.
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Exactly, well said. This is what I try to tell people/clients as well.
 
Batutta said:
I was just thinking the other day that shallow depth of field is the closest mimic to the way our eyes really see. While our eyeballs take in a deep field of vision, really, only the small, center section of our vision is being rendered with great detail. The further you get from the fovea the less detailed our vision is. Shallow depth of field imagery is a close approximation of how we see things.
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Yep that's pretty much the crux of visual perception I was inferring. When we look at a display, the whole image surface area is in focus, but in real life we only mentally "focus" on that we are actively paying attention to and the rest is just dismissed, ignored and/or quickly forgotten. I think a lot of us are drawn to shallow DoF images because they provide a heightened sense of that reality. It invokes times when we were HYPER-AWARE of something to the mental occlusion of everything around it. Like that really beautiful woman, baby, animal, car or whatever sucks in your emotional attention, that's why protrait shots are what they are, a sharp subject surrounded by a beautifully diffused bokeh.
 
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