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Mr. Rain Cloud
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There's more than one way to achieve shallow DOF with a moderately wide angle of view in a single frame...Mr. Brenizer could be shooting 4x5 sheet film and getting the effects he wants in one, single frame, instead of taking 50 small-format digital captures with a medium telephoto set to f/1.4.
For this lakeside shot, could you maybe have used FP synch, a higher ISO level, and a wide-aperture like f/2.8? The flash is not on the camera, so you could have backed the camera up and used a longer focal length lens and a wide aperture to sublimate the background's focus.
Increasing format size from 24x36 to 6x6 to 6x7 to 6x9 to 4x5, 5x7,or even 8x10 is the fastest, most direct way to get shallow depth of field with equivalent angles of view. Most of the old fantastic album cover art was shot on the apropos 6x6 rollfilm format...perfect proportion (square) and shallow DOF.