How To Make The Background More Out Of Focus When You Take A Picture On Your Digital Camera

How do I make the background more out of focus when I take a picture?

If you have a compact digital camera, there's just a very few things you can to make the background more out of focus. So, you have to switch from the green auto mode to the portrait mode, and the portrait mode will try and make the background out of focus for you. One of the problems with the compact digitals is, the lenses are so small, that it's hard to get the background out of focus. If you want that real background out of focus, then you have to switch to the SLR type camera, where you actually get to set an f-stop. Setting an f-stop. I know that's kind of scary, but you can do it using the portrait mode to begin with, and then once you get more comfortable, you switch to "aperture priority" and pick a wide f-stop like 2 or 2.8. Then you space your subjects quite a ways from the background and it'll be nicely out of focus. Remember the rule of thumb and portrait photography is you want the subject at least as far from the background as the camera is to the subject. And that's how you get the background out of focus.