Photography...Focus
By blogyourself
@blogyourself (1577)
United States
9 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
29 Jan 07
My husband is a photographer. He said to get the blur in the back ground, you must focus on the object in the front, and make sure the lens f stop is wide open. You can only do it on a manual camera or one that has an apature prefered meter.
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
29 Jan 07
It's so much easier doing stuff in the camera rather than using photoshop.
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@juls2me2 (2150)
• United States
29 Jan 07
On my camera, you choose the portrait setting...using either the icon of a face or flower. Then the object that is focused on in the center gude point will stand out from the background. This camera is spoiling me to not have to adjust the aperature at all...it has presets that are great. Canon EOS digital SLR has been the best investments so far for our photography needs. Good luck to you.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Jan 07
You have to use lens that has F1.4 to F2.8
I use F1.7 and I am happy about.
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
29 Jan 07
If I remember correctly from my photo-taking days...
The smaller the aperature (the lens opening), the greater the depth of field (area of the picture that will be in focus).
The larger the opening, the smaller the depth of field will be--in other words, if you focus on the foreground, the background will be somewhat blurry. You might use this for a portrait where you don't want the background distracting from the people's faces.
On non-digital cameras, the aperature is adjusted by using a ring on the lens barrel. Different aperature settings are called f-stops.
The smaller openings have larger f numbers--f/16, f/22, etc. A large opening would be like an f/2.8.
Hope that's not too confusing, don't know if I explained it very well.
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
29 Jan 07
That's exactly right. The effect blogyourself wants requires a shallow depth of field. Set the aperture to anything less than 5.6 (like 4.0, 2.8, etc.) Then focus on what you want to be in focus, and snap the shutter.
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@vrushal_bhansali (136)
• India
29 Jan 07
It is done by setting the aperture..it is just done by opening the shutter for more seconds..
@blogyourself (1577)
• United States
29 Jan 07
Thanks for responding everyone! I wrote this down so I will have it. I rated everyone with a plus + Thanks again!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
30 Jan 07
On many of the cameras there are several setting that you can pre set to get the effect you want. The most common pre settings are Action, Landscape, Portrate and Night Mode. By setting the camera with one of these settings the camera will automatically set the correct settings on the camera. The one you would want to use is the portrate setting, this will give you a sharp focus on the main part of the photo and blur the back ground.
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
30 Jan 07
My new digital camera has a button to blurr the background. It is great.
@vicky_lane4987 (980)
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1 Feb 07
it is better if you use a digial SLR, and use the manual zoom...it allows you do decide to keep the foreground in focus and the background out of focus
