From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Setting the depth of field
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Setting the depth of field
- Now that you've got the basics of camera movement down, let's explore some actual cinematography options and tweak the camera settings for aesthetic purposes. To start, I want you to open up a new project. It'll be located inside the folder here in Chapter 9. Select the Adjusting Cameras project. This will bring you into two new compositions. One is a buildup on what you were previously working with. Now, if you look at this one, the soldiers in the field, it's just a little bit fancier than the previous. There's a few more pieces here. Let me turn this on and show you. We've got a sky layer with a horizon back there a ground plane, and some pieces, so that as we move through, it feels like it has some actual depth there on the ground. And then the tent layer and our subject and some color pieces to hold it all together. In this case, we've got a nice simple camera move. Let's go ahead and set this to two comp views.…
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