Portrait with Natural Blurred Backgrounds - Photography Course

1. Introduction: Welcome to my online chorus of the principles of creating a portrait with a blurred background. My name is Roy, and I'm an experienced photographer for over a decade now with passion for photography. Have you ever looked at these portraits and wondered how to create portraits like this? I always like to play around when photographing a portrait. Let you a little step to the side. Yes. Photos that I will teach you how to create and what techniques to use in this course, portrait photography with a blurred background. When I was just starting out, it was a real mystery, how to get show portrats and a blurred background. That is why I want to help you out. Those portrats are also known for achieving shallow depth of field. It is a technique used by many photographers, draw the attention to the model while creating a dreamy and abstract background, whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your skills. This course offers you guidance and inspiration to master the art of creating portraits with a blurred background. In the initial lesson, we will delve into the fundamental technique, equipping you with the knowledge and tools necessary to execute stunning portraits with a blurry background. With minimal equipment requirements, you can start and finish this course. What do you need? You need a camera and a tailor photo lens, 70 millimeters or larger. Also, I would like to review your work. So please share your best work and favorite photos capturing during the course, and don't forget to share what lens you have used creating those portraits. I'm eager to see your progress and hear about your experiences on this exciting journey. If you share my enthusiasm and passion, let's waste no time and dive straight into the world of portrait photography with blurred backgrounds. 2. Basics: Creating Blurred Background: Welcome and nice to have you on board. Creating a potred with a blood background, I will tell you how to create those potred and show you the tricks of the trade. The most important thing if you want to create such a potred is selecting the right lens. Choose a lens with a white aperture such as 1.8 or 2.8. Lens with a wide aperture allows more light to enter the camera and also enable you to achieve a shallower dept of field. Also, it helps you a lot if you select a tailor photo lens. Tailor photo lenses often have a narrow angle of few which helps to isolate the subject from its surroundings. Resulting in a shallow depth of field and pleasing a blurred background. This makes the tailor photo lens a popular lens for portraiture as it can produce images with smooth out of focused backgrounds that draw attention to the model. Also very important is the distance from the subject to the background. Position your subject, a good distance away from the background. The farther the background is, from the subject, the more blurry the background will be. My favorite lenses for portraiture is the 85 millimeter prime lands and the 7,200 zoom lands. The 85 is a beautiful and popular pored lens with a good weight that creates a sharp pored with a blurry background. As a photographer, you can zoom like a zoom lens. With this lens, you are the zoom by moving around. I do also like this lens, the 7,200 millimeters because you can zoom so you can play a little bit more with your angle and don't have to move around like a prime lens. The downside of this lens is this is a pretty heavy lens. The upside is you can zoom. The downside for this, you can zoom, but it's a very lightweighted lens, and that's very nice. The 85 millimeters is still my personal favorite. Besides the lens, it's important to set your camera to a small stop, a number like 2.8, for example, to achieve a shallower depth of field. Keep in mind that y aptes results in a narrow dept of field. So only the subject will be sharp and a focus and the background appears blurred. Ensure the focus point is set on the subject yes or the point of interest. This will ensure that the subject remains sharp while the background becomes blurred. You don't want the airs to be sharp and the yes to be blurry. So it is very important that you look very closely at the subject when you focus, Longer focal length lenses like 85 millimeter or larger tend to compress the background more, making it a pair more blurred compared to a wide focal length lens. With a 24 millimeter, for example, it is very but very hard to make portraits with beautiful backgrounds. Choose a background that complements the subject and adds to the overall composition of the portrait. Look for backgrounds with interesting textures, colors, patterns, or it just fits your story. Proper lighting can help to separate the subject from the background too and enhance the overall look of the portrait. By following these principles, by experimenting with different angles, you can create stunning beautiful portraits with a blurred background. In the following lesson, we will hit location to go more in depth about this. Also, I will show you how I do it with a model. So I hope to see you in the following lesson. Thank you for watching and bye bye. 3. Creating Portraits with Blurred Background: Welcome. All right. In this lesson, I'm working with the Taylor photo lens, the 85 millimeters. I set it on an aperture of 2.8. I also have chosen two locations to show this technique. Also, I will show you my settings when I show the results of the photoshoot. When I'm going to take a photo, I make sure, I focus on the eyes properly. I always like to play around when photographing a portrait, let the model look into the lens a few times, but also to the right and to the left, try to find the right and most fantastic angle of your model. Don't be afraid to test and try different things. All right, guys, keep in mind to focus on the eyes. It's very important to focus on the eyes with this technique because if you focus on the ears, the face will be sharp, and that's what you don't want. So right, an, please come a little bit closer, a little bit more. Yes. Thank you. A little step to the side. Yes. Yeah. You can look a little. Please look one time to the left for you. Nice. Can you turn your shoulders more to the other side? Yeah, nice. Little bit more. Can you look more that way? So, exactly. Other side. All right. Can you also come closer, close close closer really close? Okay. Nice. Please straighten the camera. Not too serious, my friend. Yeah. Nice. All right. Look to that way, please. Nice. Also, just like this, you know? All right. The other side one time, not that way, just straight to me, and then just look to that way. A little bit less. Yeah, exactly. One more straight in the camera. I Make Deca. Keep in mind, you put your elbows in the side. So if you stir the position, can hold your camera very very steady. Yeah, nice. Okay. Alright, we did take some photos, looking straight into the camera, looking to the right, and also looking to the left. Try different things out. Don't be afraid. Which one do you like the most? Also, cool site option is to take a subject to the foreground, like a leaf or a flower. So the foreground is sharp, and the portrait is very blurred. So this is also something we're going to do right now and going to try so you can see the effect of that. And, let's go. Hey, how amazing was that, huh? Hope you enjoyed my course and learned something about this technique. Please share your portraits with blur background, and I would love to check them out. Thank you so much, and I hope to see you in another course. Have a great day. Bye bye.