So I'm brand new to this photography thing and enjoy how a low aperture distorts the background of a photo, my aperture value will sink as low as 3.5-4 ish, depending on zoom. My question: Can I artificially make this lower? Sometimes my main subject and background are to close for this affect to show up. Sure its nice having an F-value of 35 (which I find has little difference from F-value 10.... please feel free to mention the difference), but I'd really love a smaller F-value. Any way to fake it?
Photoshop can create the effect. Doing it with the camera there is a bunch of ways. It would help to know what kinda camera you have. The lower your f-stop, the smaller the opening in the lens, so you have a small focus point creating a shallow depth of field You zoom will effect your aperture also, like a 25mm aperture on 100mm is the same as 50mm on 200mm. So if you can get far away and zoom it should help. If you have a macro mode try that, my camera has 2 macro modes and the weaker of them works great even at distances much more the "macro" and give me some decent DOF. Some of the preset modes (like portrait) should help, but Im not sure which ones, I never use them. Thanks all I can think of atm
Ahhh, you know what, I do think that zooming in tight before the photo will work... Will try this out today on my hike.
