Challenge 2: Blurry Backgrounds

[BevS97]

The challenge this week is to take a photo with a short depth of field, one where the subject is nice and clear but everything behind is blurred.

Here's one I made earlier.

[Sting]

Bluebells at the beach

[Guest]

Christmas! (2005 is the year that DS was born)

[Guest]

Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire, Feb 2012

[stockport1965]

Death Valley 2011

[Florida_Bear]

How do you get this effect ?

[BevS97]

you need to set a large aperture, which confusingly means a small number.
It also helps if you've got some distance between the subject and the background.

Best bet is to put your camera on to A and dial it down to the smallest number and see what happens.

[Florida_Bear]

Originally Posted by BevS97

you need to set a large aperture, which confusingly means a small number.
It also helps if you've got some distance between the subject and the background.

Best bet is to put your camera on to A and dial it down to the smallest number and see what happens.

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Ta...

[Guest]

This was taken at a War cemetary in France

[nigelp]

Originally Posted by BevS97

you need to set a large aperture, which confusingly means a small number.
It also helps if you've got some distance between the subject and the background.

Best bet is to put your camera on to A and dial it down to the smallest number and see what happens.

See more...

If you shoot with a point and shoot and do not have any control over your aperture, then stepping back from your subject and then zooming in will also help achieve the desired effect.

Here's a Disney one!

Kachow by makingplansfor, on Flickr