I don't really know how to ask this because I don't know exactly what I'm asking (lol) but I've noticed that in a lot of peoples' pictures, their subject will be completely in focus (of course) and the rest of the foreground and background is COMPLETELY out of focus. The only time I can ever acheive this is in macro mode. I would like some of the pictures I take of people and other objects out of macro mode to do this, but I just don't know how. Is it a matter of how capable the camera is or some kind of setting on the camera?
I took this picture today and I think it's a cute family-type picture but I used it to show you guys what I mean...
Here it is originally. (His face wasn't as in focus as I wanted.)
Here it is with a crappy PS background-blurring job. I would actually want it to be blurred a whole lot more.
I noticed a lot of Varm's pics have this effect that I'm wanting. Do you manually focus every time, even with a digital camera, if you want only your subject to be in focus? I feel like I could improve a lot of my pictures if I learned more technical things about photography.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
