‘work with shallow depth of field and your photos will look much more professional’ 🙂 alright, but how can you achieve this?
Well, there are three factors we can use to create a nice background blur:
- shoot in aperture priority and use an open aperture value (low aperture number)
- get as close as possible to your subject and increase the distance to the background
- use a longer focal length
- use portrait mode on your iPhone/Smartphone 😉
Your assignment
- Shoot whatever you shoot
- Take every shot 2 times
- One shot with maximum amount of depth of field (using the 3 stragegies above)
- One shot with minimum amount of depth of field (using the 3 stragegies above)
Encouraging Consideration
- What worked well?
- What was hard?
- What have you learned?