On a digital camera, how can you focus on both foreground and background?

[dan007]

BTW, I do NOT have a DSLR and thus no REAL aperture control.

[camcat]

Increase your ISO, which will force the camera to choose a smaller aperture, increasing the area in focus.If there's a mode on your camera for "landscapes", choose that mode. Typically, the icon looks like a mountain. The landscape mode should increase your depth of field, as the camera will try to get as much as possible in focus.

[fantasy]

If it's a pocket style camera and doesn't have manual controls, you can't make it do anything it doesn't do automatically. If it's an SLR or pocket camera with manual controls, you need to set the aperture to a smaller diameter (bigger f/#) for a larger depth of field. F-stop

[blackandwhite]

Set the camera to "A" (aperture priority) and set the aperture (also known as "F-Stop") as high as you can. That will give you the greatest depth of field.

[blackandwhite]

Since you don't have a digital SLR and your camera has no aperture control, it will be very hard to get both the foreground and background in focus.You can move as far away as you can from the foreground but that would make the foreground very small, not something you may want. There is a trick to getting both the foreground and background sharp but it has to do with photo-editing. You can get focus on the foreground and snap a picture to get a sharp foreground. Then focus on the background and snap a picture to get a sharp background. Make sure you prefocus on each and them shoot the exact same location after the prefocus.Then using software, you can combine the two images into one, the sharp focus of the foreground with the sharp focus of the background from the two images. You can do this by using layers, selection tool and the clone brush.The majority of digital cameras has Aperture control though, even really cheap ones. I suggest you open your manual up to confirm. If it does have aperture control, it will probably max out at f/8 or f/11. Set it to this value if you can and shoot away. Good luck!

[sixtysix]

The same way you do when shooting film.Use a small aperture and a wide angle lens.

[canonist]

Move farther. This way you will put your subject and the background on a somewhat equal footing... far. Your depth of field is affected not only by your aperture. This is also affected by the subject's focus distance and the focal length. Since you don't have an SLR and can only do so much with your camera, do what most photographer's do when they have the wrong lens, adjust your position rather than the setting.

[funnymom]

I would try standing as close to the subject as possible and not zooming in on anything. Zooming tends to blur the background, and the more you zoom, the blurrier the background. So yeah, just try and stand close to your subject when you snap the shot.