‘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?