# Deep focus

Camera / Focus and depth / Depth of field. Checked 2026-10-13.

Everything sharp from front to back; the viewer can look anywhere.

- Use when: Landscapes, architecture, a busy scene where context matters.
- Phrase: deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/focus/deep-focus
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/focus/deep-focus.json

## Watch out

- For stills, practitioners write a full capture line with an aperture (35mm, f/1.8); a 2025 study for Midjourney found f-stops ignored and plain words (blurred background) working. Plain words first, the number as support. (practitioner; Dan Kieft (1 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on image prompting; Midjourney mapping in our own notes (2025, to audit))

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: Use a narrow aperture of f/22 to achieve deep focus, ensuring everything from the immediate foreground to the distant horizon remains perfectly sharp
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: Use a narrow aperture of f/22 to achieve deep focus, ensuring everything from the immediate foreground to the distant horizon remains perfectly sharp
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Deep focus, the flowers in the foreground and the mountains behind equally sharp. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Shallow depth of field: https://directorchair.ai/focus/shallow-focus
- Wide lens (24mm): https://directorchair.ai/lens/wide-lens

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words

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