I can't think of any specific movies off the top of my head but in a lot of movies, when a character is looking at a photography, the foreground of the photo will be in focus, and the background, out of focus. Then the character notices something suspicious in the background of the photo.
We see a POV shot of what he is looking at in the background, and the out of focus background goes into focus, but you see the foreground of the photo, now go out of focus.
However, obviously if you were to take a real photo with the background out of focus, shoot it with a camera, and rack focus on the photo, the whole thing will go out of focus. You can not rack focus on an out of focus background of a photo, and put it in focus obviously. So how do they do this for the movies with photographs in the shot?
Thanks for the input.
We see a POV shot of what he is looking at in the background, and the out of focus background goes into focus, but you see the foreground of the photo, now go out of focus.
However, obviously if you were to take a real photo with the background out of focus, shoot it with a camera, and rack focus on the photo, the whole thing will go out of focus. You can not rack focus on an out of focus background of a photo, and put it in focus obviously. So how do they do this for the movies with photographs in the shot?
Thanks for the input.