How to focus everything equally on Canon EOS Rebel XS?

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1. fhotoace says:

   06/03/2010 at 00:56

   You can get close.

   Wide angle lens at f/22

   The longer the lens the shallower the depth of field
   The larger the aperture the shallower the depth of field
   Add the two together and there you have it.

   If you take a nice beginning class if photography, you will learn all about that and much, much more
2. Pooky says:

   06/03/2010 at 01:27

   See the different background “blur” with various aperture settings here:

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_pooky/2293925253/sizes/o/

   His suggestion is right. Photography class will be very valuable for any beginning photographer. Once you know the basic theory of photography, everything will fall into places.
3. d5canon says:

   06/03/2010 at 01:33

   You need a small lens opening to achieve great depth of field. You can achieve this in several ways, with some other limitations.
   You can set your camera on “P” and select a small lens opening (a lens opening is smaller as the f number gets larger) but be aware that this will make your camera use longer shutter speeds making holding the camera steady very difficult.
   You can set the ISO (the setting that determines how sensitive your camera is to light) to a higher number. This will let you use higher shutter speeds when the light is lower giving you better depth of field. I believe your camera defaults to ISO 100 but you can probably set it as high as 800 or perhaps even 1600. The drawback to using higher ISO numbers is an increase in noise and grain in your picture.
   If you are trying to achieve great depth of field using flash, you will probably have to use bounce flash and manual camera settings to achieve this.
   Outdoors in bright sunlight, the problem probably will not exist.