Question about taking pics

The way to do this is you need a camera where you can control the aperture. Aperture is bascily how big the hole in the lens is. What you wnat to to is to get in close. keeping in mind the minimum focal distance for your camera/lens, and open up the aperture as much as possible. This will decrease the depth of feild making the background a nice blur. If you are in full manual control you will have to make the shutter speed fast to get the right exposure. If you have a point and shoot camera where everything is automated and has programmed settings for you the easiest way is probably to look for a macro mode. It might not give you a nice blurr but it will allow you to get in close. If you have your camera manual look up the diffrent program modes or shooting modes and see if any of them open up the aperture. Heres a link to show the diffrence between a aperture that is small and one that is wide open -- http://weddingphotographyblog.com/?p=13

My Macro setting on my camera blurs the background pretty well with a clear focus on the foreground. A lot of cameras have a macro setting, and it usually looks like a flower on the camera dial. That's the easiest way for me to blur the background.

To the best of my knowledge that can be done with most cameras if you have manuel focus then you can choose what your camera focuses on. I've even seen them where the background is in focus and the foreground is blurry. I haven't tried any this way yet so I'm not sure exactly how it is done. I have read about it. Though its been awhile ago.

it actually depends on what you focuses on, like on your example the camera's lens was focused on the flower alone so only the flower will be in sharp and the background will be blurred...

Try setting your camera to macro mode, maybe that will help. Blurring the background and focusing on the subject, i think it is called bokeh. It's a good strategy to achieve a good composition. Just get close to the subject and manually or automatically focus on it. That should do the trick. Also, steady hands help a lot to achieve a sharp image. if you have shaky hands, better use a tripod to avoid blurriness in your picture.

Hi there.. this is called in photographic terms " Bookeh" or whatever they spell it like... Its a lense trick basically.. I think all modern Digital Compact Cameras afford this trick.. but it is very easily done with DSLRs.Digital Nikon you have,,if it is a compact one will do the trick when you set the Focus of lense to an object "manually".. Put a flower say about 1 meter from you...zoom to it full length..set focus manually in your camers on say what the length is between your lense and the flower untill flower looks clear and sharp and then you will see the objects behind the flower become dull in clearity...snap the shot.. if this do not work.. please let me know the exact model of your camers..

i think it si done with the light and right angle of the subject. you can try to study on how to capture a good shots since you have a nice camera on you, me i have canon, and my digital camera from acer which i enjoy them all, i also have my mobile w/ camera.i love photography.

it is time of exposure and lighting

Macro lenses focus on very close objects. However, using macro lenses means that the DOF (Depth of Field, for ignorants like me -- it took me forever to understand what those abbreviations meant) will be very small, so only what is at the proper distance will be focussed, and the rest more or less blurry (less if it's close to it, more if it's in the background). Hope this helped :)

What model of Nikon Coolpix you have....May be we can help.

no nothing so special abt that if you take picture from a very close range the picture near to the lenses only will be visible clearly and the background will be automatically be blured if its a manual camera and abt digital try using photoshop to do it after taking the picture