3 Easy Steps To Blurry Backgrounds

If you want that creamy out-of-focus look in your background, then you need to understand 3 things. Number one, if your subject is tight up against the background, it's going to be really hard to get that background out of focus. So you want them to be placed somewhere where the background is much further away. Number 2, you need to get closer to your subject because that out-of-focus background look is what we call having a narrow depth of field. And the closer you are to what you're photographing and closer your focus to that, the more out of focus that background is going to get. And number 3, and this is very important, you need to be using a wide open aperture, the largest aperture that you have. Even then, with a kit lens, you may struggle, especially if you have a cropped sensor. Put all 3 of those together— proximity to your subject, your subject's proximity to the background, and a wide aperture— and you will maximize the blur of that background. Follow this channel for more on the fundamentals of photography.