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"If the background doesn't have a purpose I am zooming in and cutting the background out," she said, or using depth of field to blur it out.
This makes it a waste of time registering things that are not changing, like the sensation of clothes or a chair against your body, so the brain uses adaptation to tune this background out, allowing you to focus on what is new.
The effect is to keep characters in sharp focus and throw the background out of focus, in a classical visual trope of portraiture.
He usually stands in the background, out of sight, before coming forward to urge better effort or correct some fine point of technique.
(Am I inventing this scene?) And in Jean-Pierre Melville's French Resistance drama "Army of Shadows," the leader of the resistance, General Charles de Gaulle, then in London, is shown only in the background, out of focus, or in shadow.
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By social-educational background, out-of-school males, at 81.1 per cent, were the most likely group to have had intercourse, a significantly higher figure than for other groups of males and out-of-school females (p < 0.001 in each case), and none had had only sexual contact.
With the optical slicing ability of a laser-scanning microscope, the background of out-of-focus light is also reduced.
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