How to shoot background blur in Canon 60D?

If you want to blur the background with Canon 60D, you need to turn on the aperture. Take 18- 135 as an example, turn the aperture to the maximum, use the telephoto end of the lens (that is, turn the front half of the lens out completely) and then focus on the model to take pictures. The background is blurred. Of course, the background should not be too close to the model. For example, if the model is against a wall or a tree, the objects close to it cannot be blurred.

Skills of using aperture

Close-up: When shooting portraits, the focal length of about 85mm can blur the background.

F5.6 is suitable for people and travel photography.

Taking travel photos is not allowed to prepare slowly, so you must respond quickly. Moderate aperture can make those eye-catching subjects have enough room to play.

It is difficult for us to recommend aperture for people and travel photos, because the theme and environment are very different. However, we can still tell you a good starting point. Under the medium aperture, we can respond according to different lighting conditions, narrowing or increasing the aperture.

The "landscape" shooting mode found in many digital cameras uses a medium aperture.

In order to accurately control the aperture size, you should choose the Aperture Priority (Av) mode, or simply use the manual mode for adjustment.

When traveling, tourists often take pictures of scenery, houses or city features. These subjects will attract the attention of the audience because of the great difference in brightness in the picture, so the automatic exposure mode in the camera is difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

In order to get the best aperture value, professional photographers usually choose a set of aperture ranges.

They first switch to manual mode, and then set the aperture to a median value.

Next, press the shutter several times, and then increase or decrease the aperture to repeat the shooting.

If the photos taken in this way still can't show all the lighting effects, they can only be edited in the middle and late period of Photoshop.

You should arrange the photos in turn, and then use the mask to modify the underexposed or overexposed parts.

When shooting distant scenery, you can no longer expect to get a blurred background, especially when shooting details in the landscape.

News photos taken during the trip should put the surrounding audience into the event, and it is best not to have fuzzy places on the picture.

Multi-person photos also need depth of field.

Portrait mode is not suitable here, because the camera's automatic function will open the aperture.

The focal length is 50mm, and the aperture from F5.6 to F8 can completely show the depth of field, so that everyone in the photo can see it clearly.

If you use a longer focal length, you should continue to narrow the aperture or be farther away from the subject, so as to make the depth of field larger.