Photo Tip Friday - Using Zoom on Your Camera to Blur the Background

by Mary Denman

Welcome back to Photo Tip Friday!

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Over the past couple of weeks, we talked about the focal point of a picture and what depth of field is. 
Click here for last week's post.

Ellen asked a great question last week while trying to find the Aperture setting (which controls depth of field) on her point and shoot camera, as opposed to a DSLR camera - Digital Single Lens Reflex. After I got the model of her camera, I realized the information was so buried in the instruction manual that I decided to teach the work around for her and everyone else. 

This technique will work for cell phones, point and shoot, and DSLR cameras.