Photography - smooth backgrounds with telephoto lenses

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#6 How to get a smooth or faded background in your photo’s with a telephoto lens

Achieving a smooth background in your photographs isn’t as hard as it first seems for beginners. Firstly, set your camera’s F-stop to a low number, for example, 4.0. Secondly zoom your telephoto lens out. In the example below, I had mine zoomed out to 200mm focal length. Then move as close to your subject as possible, while still allowing you to focus properly and take your shot. The lower the F number, the more zoomed out your lens, and the closer you are to your subject, the nicer the smoothness.

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