Conversely, you can also increase the amount of background blur by moving your lens closer to your subject. This can work to great effect for macro photography, as bringing the camera closer will ...

Portrait photo mode on iPhone was an amazing upgrade to get that blurry background in photos - but to be able to make videos with that cinematic blurred background look with the iPhone 13 video ...

Photographers discovered ... Dixie was sharp—well, my kind of sharp at that time—and the background was wonderfully blurred. When I raced out of the darkroom to show the picture to my parents ...