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How to make a face clear and the background blurry??
I have a Nikon D5000, I want to take shots of my family where their faces and bodies are focused and the background is blurred. How do i got about doing this? i only have a 18mm – 105mm lens. Just starting to get into this. Any help is appericated.
Tags: Blurred, Face, Nikon D5000
6 Answers to “How to make a face clear and the background blurry??”
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In addition to a wider aperature use a longer lens, somthing above 70mm. another posability is to get very close to your subject and use a wide lens.
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Put your camera on AV. Then change the number to F5.06. And then take a picture. When you push the button down halfway,there should be a little red dot. Aim that little red dot at what you don\’t want blurry and then push the button down all the way. Hope this helps 
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First, you need a wide aperature. omglohannah knows this camera and your lens and recommends a lens setting of f/5.6.
Second, parkerjtp recommends you physically move yourself as close to the subject you\’re photographing as you can get and still keep that subject in foucs.
Third, the idea behind selective focus (which is what you\’re asking about) is basically covered by the above. One point to consider is that the longer your lens (105 mm is moderately long, 200mm is fairly moderate, 300mm is long, 400mm is longer, 500 is really long, etc.), the more dramatically you can throw foregrounds and backgrounds out of focus.
I point this out in the event you compare your selective focus results with those taken with a really long lens. I have a 300mm f.2,8 lens that has a dedicated 2X extender. This, in effect, gives me the equivalent of a 900mm film camera lens. That lens gives me an extremely narrow focal range at its widest setting.
Your results with a shorter lens will not be that narrow. Your results following the above recommendations, however, will be as good as your lens allows.
Good luck.
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How to you get 900mm out of a 300mm lens with a 2x tube?
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You should be able to set the auto focus on the body and the lens to manual, and then you can just widen the aperture, and either zoom close, or get closer, so that they fill about half of the frame, if not more, and that should give you the effect you’re looking for
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I think instead of AV, nikon uses “A” to denote “Aperture Priority”.
Open the aperture as much as possible (lower f values are better).
Get nice and close to your subject and your depth of field should decrease.
Also go on google and read up on “Bokeh effect”.
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