A close focusing wide angle lens? If he's shooting 35mm movie film a wide lens is something like an 8 to 12 mm. You get one heck of a lot of DOF with a lens like that. Paul On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Barry Rice wrote:
> Hey Folks, > > A general photography question.... > > I'm a big fan of David Attenborough documentaries. Starting with > his series, > The Private Life of Plants, occasionally his film team uses a > spectacular > technique which I simply do not understand how they achieve. It is > like an > extreme hyperfocal depth of field. In the image foreground is some > high-magnification object, such as a plant's flower, and in the > background > you can see the field the plant is in, ALL IN SHARP FOCUS. > > I was watching an episode of his "Life in the Undergrowth" series > last night > and one shot showed some ants---ANTS---scurrying in the foreground, > tapping > antennae, and in the background you could see Attenborough sitting > on a log, > all in focus. The ants were so big because of perspective effects, > they > looked like collies! > > I'm fairly confident that this is not a bit of greenscreen magic. > But I'm > trying to figure out the method. It probably would cost > gadzillions, but > wow....if I could achieve that kind of perspective...... > > I vaguely recall that in the promotional information that came out > about > when The Private Life of Plants was first shown, there was a lot of > broughhaha about this new technique? > > Barry > > > Barry A. Rice, Ph.D. > Invasive Species Specialist > Global Invasive Species Initiative > The Nature Conservancy > V: 530-754-8891 > http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
