Sentences with phrase «of shallow focus»

Nevertheless, the sidestepping of cliche is refreshing, and the combination of shallow focus and deep contrast lends a depth to the image that is suitably cinematic.

The visual style — the orange - and - blue color scheme, the elegant «Scope compositions, the graceful tracking shots, and the shrewd use of shallow focus — has been reproduced almost perfectly from John Carpenter's original, yet the wit and intelligence are gone.

Not exact matches

He shows that most of us try to build trust backward and focus on the shallow fun of ping - pong tables instead of the deep fun of hard problems,» explains Grant of this pick.

At three minutes in length, this ad might run a little long, but it beams with slick editing and some hallmark features of web - ready videos: handheld camera work, shallow focus and an emphasis on pitch - perfect music.

Mannkind, which focuses on the development and commercialization of inhaled therapeutic products for patients with diseases such as diabetes and pulmonary arterial hypertension, entered a shallow but persistent downtrend in 2004, posting a series of lower highs into 2015.

In March, Transocean sold its fleet of shallow water jack - up rigs to Norway's Borr Drilling BORR.NFF for $ 1.35 billion, saying it wanted to focus on its core deep - and ultra-deepwater rig market.

New friendships tend to be shallow, focused on sharing superficial pastimes rather than on the mutual development of character.

We can cross our arms and protest the «shallow entertainment focus of the church» or we can realize that God doesn't care if there we are shredding on the guitar or singing acappella.

Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»

In the afternoon, initial speed out of the start proved to be the critical factor on a very shallow course that grew increasingly rutted throughout the session to the extent that, by the turn of the men's and women's third teams, just negotiating the flume - like track without mishap was a greater focus than setting a fast time.

For product photography, you will usually want to focus solely on your creation, so using a shallow depth of field will be perfect, it will throw everything else out of focus, this way nothing distracts from your product.

On your camera simply use the portrait (picture of a head) setting for a shallow depth of field that just has the subject in focus and blur in front and behind.

- strengthening the upper body and core muscles for other gross motor tasks - strengthening the upper body and core muscles to create a stable base for fine motor skills - developing stability in the bones of the shoulder joint (the ball and socket joints of the shoulders and hips are shallow and unstable at birth but are molded into stronger, more stable joints through weight - bearing)- visual development to quickly shift focus from near to far - hand - eye - coordination - providing plentiful early opportunities for motor planning (movement problem - solving)- refining balance - integrating the movement (vestibular), pressure & stretch (proprioceptive), visual and touch (tactile) sensory systems - learning to coordinate movements where two sides of the body are doing different movements - learning to coordinate upper body and lower body movements - developing body awareness and spatial awareness - fostering independence

We perceive the huge structures as miniature because of the blurring created by Barbieri's overly shallow focus, says visual neuroscientist Ray Phinney of Wheaton College in Illinois.

Focusing on two stickleback species — one that dwells in the grassy shallows of the lake bottom and another that inhabits open water — the researchers found that different parts of the fish skeleton, even those that lie close to one another, are controlled by different chromosome regions.

This is the seventh year for the Bay outlook which, because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary, focuses on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf.

However this is an illusion created by a «tilt - shift» technique to create the appearance of a shallow depth of focus.

A common zebra jumping spider is shot using multiple images that have been combined to remove the shallow depth of focus that would normally obscure viewing such small subjects in their entirety.»

At present very few of these deeper reef systems receive any form of protection around the world because reef management — where it exists — tends to focus on shallow reefs, the scientists say.

The initial LASSO implementation on the Cumulus cluster will be for ARM's Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma and will focus on high - resolution model simulations of shallow clouds driven by ensembles of forcing inputs.

His research has focused on imaging and modeling active faults throughout the continental U.S. and Alaska, and on the influence of shallow deposits on ground shaking.

As you perform each lunge, with a shallow or deep range of motion, you focus completely on proper lunge form without worrying about shifting your center of gravity forward or backward as you would when taking steps to the front or back.

The 1.8 is definitely one of those apertures that will have the tip of your nose in focus, but not your eyes — that's how shallow the DoF (depth - of - field) is with really wide apertures.

A shallow depth of field (smaller f - stop number) will only focus on the objects in the foreground and leave the background blurry and a wider depth of field (larger f - stop number) will produce an image with more of the background in focus.

Sure, they can be shallow and just mainly focus on the superficial aspect of you, but isn't that what you should be doing in the first place?

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

McGarvey shot with the ARRI Alexa 65, a high - resolution digital camera with imaging characteristics that mimic the shallow - depth - of - field effects often associated with 70 mm photography, throwing much of the image out of focus.

Following Saul through the labyrinth of the Nazi death machine, in shallow - focus close - ups that blessedly obfuscate some of the atrocities happening around him, this remarkably assured debut has earned criticism for giving history's darkest chapter the urgency of a thriller.

¹ André Bazin and the late Eric Rohmer, especially, championed the moral as well as aesthetic superiority of mise en scène over montage, of Hawksian «invisible cutting» over dictatorial Eisensteinian editing, and of deep - focus over a more selective, shallow depth - of - field.

Director László Nemes shoots Son Of Saul in extremely shallow focus, keeping the horrors of the gas chambers barely visible in the background; the focus is on Saul, who dominates the frame throughouOf Saul in extremely shallow focus, keeping the horrors of the gas chambers barely visible in the background; the focus is on Saul, who dominates the frame throughouof the gas chambers barely visible in the background; the focus is on Saul, who dominates the frame throughout.

Here director Jenny Gage and cinematographer Tom Betterton (they share the movie's possessive credit) use shallow focus to create a sense of intimacy around their subjects.

As the story ambles along, focused most of all on heart strings, Denver's shallow purpose to the film is revealed.

That may sound shallow considering that natural gas could play a role in gaining energy independence (from what I understand it's a mixed bag environmentally as much of the stuff is locked in oil shale) but Honda is a small company that needs to focus its limited resources.

The gorgeous beaches are the focus of most holidays here, and the clear, shallow waters are great for even the youngest kids.

Instead of basing their judgement on shallow prejudices on specific genres and fostering them, the Commission should focus on promoting content innovation in those areas»

It seems the adventure will focus on reclaiming the kingdom, although we can surely expect much more than a shallow coup and reclamation story from the likes of Level 5.

Nintendo did say they wanted to focus on games coming this year, but it seemed shallow when you consider more than half of them release next year.

So what if there's a game entirely focused on the shallow act of shoving a penis head into an adorable butt hole?

Gran Turismo Sport is a beautiful racing game, but its lack of content and focus toward an always - online experience makes everything feel a bit shallow.

It's certainly enjoyable in terms of minute - to - minute gameplay, but its current lack of depth and the developer's apparent focus on introducing more shallow features instead of adding depth to existing ones ultimately make the game mostly a good introduction to space sims for the newbies whose lacking features will surely have you looking to Star Citizen once the inevitable boredom sets in.

With the company's new focus on casual gamers, a lot of its key brands were put to one side, and in the absence of anything other than shallow party games to play, many gamers lost interest in Nintendo's systems.

Using shallow depth of field, her compelling photographs play with the contrast between small areas of sharp focus and a painterly blurring of the other compositional elements.

My breath becomes shallow as I am awash with a zen - like focus on maintaining my balance, and partially so as not to disturb Beck — who is intently fixated on the picnic table in the center of the room.

A little girl slumped on a chair in shallow focus can barely tolerate the photograph, but two others pose eagerly, in front of a fancy car.

A shallow space, in which a combination of clearly defined graphical lines and stencils sit on the surface, contrasts with a more ambiguous environment made up of naturalistic gestures that fade in and out of focus like a distant memory.

He starts to address this question in his post, but dribbles off and shifts the focus to a couple of surveys that show people deeply care about global warming — even when there's abundant evidence that much of public attitude on climate is, as I've been saying, the equivalent of water sloshing in a shallow pan — lots of fluctuations, little depth or commitment (particularly when money is involved).

And it follows that the cheapest and least effort is to teach or learn is by focusing on one side - assuming one wants the shallow appearance of knowing something.

For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.

We focus on three physically realizable cases: classical two - dimensional turbulence, surface quasi-geostrophic turbulence, and shallow - water quasi-geostrophic turbulence at scales large compared to the radius of deformation.

That's the main difference between a shallow depth of field portrait and a sweeping landscape with everything in focus.