So you have a new camera, and you’re dying to take a professional looking portrait photo. You know, the type of photo where your subject is in perfect focus, but the background is soft and blurry. How do you do it? It all starts with understanding aperture. How to create a blurry background is the #1 thing people ask me when it comes to taking artistic photos.… My answer is always the same: that they need a low aperture lens. You might have heard the word aperture before, but what the heck is it? Aperture is the main factor in whether the background[...]