Did you ever had trouble mentally visualizing what a bokeh / DOF background would look like? Try this: select a low-aperture number, point at the background, focus on your finger and take the shot. Voila!
“Pull my finger!”
Ok so this may be stupidly obvious to those who already do it and not so much for others (took me awhile to figure it out).
A few caveats though: this won’t be 100% accurate because bokeh / DOF (technically not the same but for the purpose of this discussion, we’ll pretend they are) is relative to the distant the camera is from the subject (finger/model) and also relative to the distance of the subject from the background. In short, it won’t look the same unless your subject is standing at arm’s-length. Lastly, it only works if your lens allows you to focus at arm’s-length. Duh!
"Lastly, it only works if your lens doesn’t allow you to focus at arm-length. Duh!"
ReplyDeleteDid you mean, it only works if your lens ALLOWS you to focus at arms-length?
right you are, John.
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