Tag Archives: Blur

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Distance to Subject:Subject’s Distance to Background

There are many different ways to shoot a portrait. Environmental portraits show a subject in context, like a potter in his studio. Then there are dropped background portraits wherein the characteristics of a wide aperture are used to blur the … Continue reading

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Come On Softness

  I am a little embarrassed to admit that after years of manual photography, going back to even the darkroom era, that I did not fully understand aperture. My assumption was that the aperture number (f-whatever) was an absolute value … Continue reading