3.15 Aperture-Priority—Depth of Field Although changing the aperture doesn’t change the exposure in this mode, you can use exposure compensation and other techniques to lighten or darken the image. < At close distances, depth of field is very shallow, even when you use a small aperture (left). The same aperture at a greater distance will give you great depth of field (below). A Smaller apertures give greater depth of field (top) than do larger apertures (bottom). In both images the camera was focused on the same gray house and only the aperture was changed. “ar