10 Examples Of A Blurry Background In Photography

We talked about what you need to do to get a blur­ry back­ground in your pho­tos, and how aper­ture and depth of field help you to cre­ate a blur­ry back­ground and bring the focus direct­ly to your sub­ject. Now let’s look at some beau­ti­ful exam­ples of that but­tery, blur­ry back­ground effect.

The fol­low­ing are won­der­ful exam­ples of beau­ti­ful blur­ry back­grounds, includ­ing some from my students!

A nar­row focus, when every­thing around is blurred, can make a pic­ture look dreamy. If it is a mov­ing object, frozen in that moment and detached from its sur­round­ings by the small focus, it can dra­mat­i­cal­ly affect a pic­ture.…Berit K.

Dena’s class­es have been invalu­able to me. If you’re on the fence about buy­ing the class­es, do it! Because of her men­tor­ing and guid­ance, I now have a boudoir pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness and have been pub­lished in 4 mag­a­zines…Sheila B.

I love that I now know how to make a blur­ry back­ground in my por­traits. Thank you Images by Dena…Katy J

Using depth of field and aper­ture in the pho­to above helps bring the view­er’s atten­tion direct­ly to the amaryllis. 

I specif­i­cal­ly used my aper­ture to cre­ate focus on the daisy. The back­ground was unat­trac­tive and I knew that using a blur­ry back­ground would put the focus on the flower…Christi­na B.

The blur­ry back­ground effect was a con­cept I want­ed to grasp. With­out Dena’s class, it would have tak­en me a long time to under­stand the mag­ic behind it. Her class helped me under­stand depth of field and how to find the sweet spot on your lens…Coleen F.

Dena’s class­es have been so help­ful for me. Learn­ing how aper­ture and depth of field work togeth­er to cre­ate this beau­ti­ful blur­ry back­ground has tak­en my pho­tog­ra­phy to the next lev­el. This pho­to will def­i­nite­ly be going on my wall…Susan C.

This is the per­fect use of depth of field and aper­ture to put the focus on the front eggs.

I learned to use depth of field and aper­ture to take focus to the exact point that I want to in my pho­to…Lisa M

In the above shot, the view­er ensured that your eye went direct­ly to the blossoms.

If you want to learn exact­ly what you need to do to cre­ate a beau­ti­ful­ly blur­ry back­ground in your pho­tos, make sure to check out my Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials…I’ll have you shoot­ing like this in no time!