I recently received the following question from a friend and
thought I'd share it and my answer! One of the things that
always seems hard for me is to get the right kind of focus. I
love how your pictures focus on one part of the person and the
rest is beautifully blurred or bokeh'd (haha if that's even a
word). How do you do it? (: Well bokeh is technically the name
of the shape that the light blurs beyond the field of focus take
on due to the shape of the lens. You can actually affect the
shape of the bokeh by even cutting paper into say, a star shape
and shooting through it. Bokeh Shaping Tutorial But what you
want to know about is the field of focus. :D On any SLR, you
will have a lens that allows you to adjust two, maybe three,
things. Shutter Speed, Aperture or F-Stop, and on zoom lenses
you can adjust focal length. These all have implications for how
your picture will end up looking. Aperture is the most relevant
to your question, so that’s what I’ll focus on. Aperture
basically refers to how big the o