Many of the scenes are shot from far away with long lenses, so our subjects are in sharp focus, but the world around them is a blur.
The DP1 also easily delivers that special pro effect where the subject is in sharp focus, but the background is softly blurred — something most pocket consumer cams can't manage.
With the country gearing up for elections soon, the issue has been in sharp focus, but is there any chance of tackling the problem?
But the memory of Senna remains in sharp focus, a reminder of a time when Michael Schumacher could be beaten and grand prix racing still seemed larger than life.
Mr. Wyner's single-movement score does not include any opportunities for improvisation, but it keeps the piano line in sharp focus throughout, and is meant to suggest the energy and flow, as well as the give-and-take between soloist and orchestra, of a Mozart concerto -- radically updated to embrace Mr. Wyner's contemporary language.
The battle scenes are extraordinarily convincing, sometimes taking on the appearance of silent newsreels of the era, but in sharper focus, and the choreography, involving thousands of participants, is exceptionally skillful.
It has the virtues and the faults of Allen's later films which is to say that his ideas come to the fore in sharp focus, sketched with clear and decisive lines, but sometimes the sketchiness detaches them from the context of lived experience and turns them merely assertive and hermetic.
When you look directly at the Mona Lisa's lips the smile all but disappears (the theory goes) because you're seeing Leonardo's perfectly crafted neutrality in sharp focus.
