Such plate boundaries are the site of interplate earthquakes of shallow focus.
Great images, shallow focus, details that are pointless to describe: a gate, a pipe's shadow, a girl's fingers.
The advertisement is for depth control, a feature of portrait mode that lets some smartphones make portraits with shallow focus and fuzzy backgrounds.
In addition, high-speed CCD cameras with high resolution, large magnification and shallow focus depth are usually used in the inspection process.
Now, the first of those two clips from Central Station has an extremely shallow focus [a sequence with Dora the letter-writer's customers] - all that's in focus is the faces, and all that's behind them is almost abstract.
He doesn't say a thing, but the scene overflows with meaning, from the ringing church bells to the somber wintry light and the shallow focus that has turned the world around him into an undifferentiated blur.
The mix of late-80s architecture, shallow focus and electronic pop is among the only moments director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) gets to put a little visual spin on this otherwise plain-looking film, and it snaps together perfectly.
Shallow focus... Still from Ridley Scott's film version of A Year in Provence I'm writing this sitting in front of a fire, in a wing of an old chateau in the Pyrenees.
The camera stays in a tight closeup almost throughout, with a shallow focus on Saul's haggard face, scorched and strip-mined of normal human emotion and response, like the face of a pterodactyl.
Because of the aftershock's shallow focus and the location of the tremor's epicentre within Christchurch's metropolitan area, it proved to be more devastating and deadly than the principal quake, which was centred in a rural area.
Much of the action takes place in semi-darkness (the sunlight-allergic Abby's preferred ambience), and Mr. Reeves and his cinematographer, Greig Fraser, warp and blur the images, using shallow focus to convey the isolation and disorientation of the vulnerable children.
