How to Create Depth of Field

Today I’m going to be talking about how to get a blurry background, also known as depth of field.

Now I know you’ve seen other YouTubers who have a blurry background, maybe you’ve seen it in photography. I know it’s really easy to do on our smartphone cameras now. You just swipe over to portrait mode and it does things for you. But today we’re going to be talking about how you can create that effect using your own camera.

But how do we create that effect?

And what even is depth of field, really?