So, how do you achieve a depth of field look to photos on digital cameras? I basically want to take a picture of me and my friends, with the background blurry.
Can Digital Cameras have depth of field?
It's harder with a point and shoot digital, but it's not impossible. This is why Best Buy is not a good place to shop for anything electronic (in addition to their outrageous retail prices).
Most point and shoots have a portrait mode. Use that. On the dial, it looks like a profile of a person's head.
Next, make sure you're on the lowest ISO. Put you and your friends closer to the camera and your background far enough away to get blur. You might consider putting your and your friends in the shade and not out in bright sunshine, as the shade will cause the camera to select a wider aperture, helping to get the blurry background.
Alternatively, you can go to aperture preferred if your camera has that or manual and just select the widest aperture on your camera. However, that requires more technical skill and the built-in portrait mode is usually easier without requiring a lot of technical knowledge.
Reply:The sale person knows as much about a camera as I know about math (I'm pretty bad with math).
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c317/w...
Left photo, 50 mm f 1.8 at f1.8
Right photo, 50 mm f 1.8 (same lens), at f 5.6.
Taken with a digital camera. (Canon 5D).
Reply:that best buy worker should be shot.
If you have a compact camera with aperture settings (f2.8, or f3.2), and an optical zoom, you will be able to get that effect.
Know that three things will give you that effect.
wide aperture (f2.8 for example)
focal length (distance from the optical center of the lens to the front surface of the cameras target)
distance of camera to subject
here's a tutorial on it.
http://smad.jmu.edu/dof/
Reply:I took a picture at 18" that looked like a portrait. The camera has a fixed lens. Take a few see what works best. You can always delete them if they don't turn out.
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