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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 275765" data-attributes="member: 13090">This effect is what is know as Depth of Field and a full explanation of this concept can be found here:&nbsp;<a href="http://&quot;http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm" target="_blank">Understanding Depth of Field</a>My own simple explanation follows:The blurriness of the background depends, primarily, on two things: 1. The aperture used to take the shot and, 2. The distance between your in-focus subject and the background. Other things like the compression factor of using a zoom lens can also contribute but I'm going to try and keep this explanation relatively short...Smaller apertures will make your backgrounds sharper and more in focus. Larger apertures will make your backgrounds less in focus and blurry.The greater the distance between your in-focus subject and the background, the more blurry your background will be; assuming apertures of the same size. Why some of shots looked one way, and others another I can't really explain without seeing the shots themselves along with the EXIF data that would tell me how the shots were taken.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 275765, member: 13090"] This effect is what is know as Depth of Field and a full explanation of this concept can be found here: [URL='http://"http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm']Understanding Depth of Field[/URL] My own simple explanation follows: The blurriness of the background depends, primarily, on two things: 1. The aperture used to take the shot and, 2. The distance between your in-focus subject and the background. Other things like the compression factor of using a zoom lens can also contribute but I'm going to try and keep this explanation relatively short... Smaller apertures will make your backgrounds sharper and more in focus. Larger apertures will make your backgrounds less in focus and blurry. The greater the distance between your in-focus subject and the background, the more blurry your background will be; assuming apertures of the same size. Why some of shots looked one way, and others another I can't really explain without seeing the shots themselves along with the EXIF data that would tell me how the shots were taken. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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