…can be achieved by setting our lenses to a low aperture value (a large aperture) like f/1.4 (if you don’t know how to do this, you could use your camera’s Portrait Mode).
But that is not the only way to get these blurry backgrounds. The effect can also be achieved or enhanced by reducing the distance between us and our close object. Because it is the relative distance between the close and the far that determines the far object’s blurriness.
So if I move my hand really close, as close as I can focus, then even at f/5.6 I can get dramatic blurring in the background. And that is what is happening here:
Remember that whenever you want blurred backgrounds: get close to your object, and/or zoom in on it.
Or blur the background in Photoshop …..
Oh no, sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. Smile. But I have been known to do it.
I’ve been investigating the relationship between DoF, hyperfocal distance and lens aperture and some time I will put it together into a post.
Yup, PS too – but either it shows or it takes a lot of time.
Make sure you add square roots and so on in the formula. That way we keep it secret. 🙂
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