depth of field

An effect where part of the image appears blurry and out-of-focus. This could be the foreground, the background, or both.

This mimics the photographic effect that's caused by the camera being able to focus at only one distance at a time, making objects at other distances appear blurry. This is often used artistically to draw attention to one part of the image.

Examples

Blurry foreground

Blurry background

Everything but the face is out-of-focus

See also

• bokeh
• blurry background
• blurry foreground
• Tag group:Image composition

The following tags are aliased to this tag: focus_blur (learn more).

This tag implicates blurry (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: bokeh and soft_focus (learn more).