How to Get Soft, Blurry Backgrounds in Pet Photos! (Hint: it's not through editing!)

If you're taking photos of pets or dogs, and trying to get those soft, creamy, blurry backgrounds like you see on social media, but they always end up looking busy and detailed, let's look at what you need to do in camera to create that background blur effect everyone loves so much.
Whether you like sparkly bokeh balls, or a more smooth textured general blur, the concept is the same, and it all comes down to your lens, settings, and the background itself. I very rarely add any extra blur effects to my backgrounds, although removing some contrast and adding a gradient at 10% opacity is seen as a crime by many purists and completely distorting the reality of the image, it does very little to the actual blur of the background.
In this video we'll go through a few methods and tips for achieving soft, creamy and blurry backgrounds, from choosing your aperture, your lens focal length, and your distance to your subject.
You can also read more about all of this in my most blog post here: inspawrationphotography.com/h...
All photos taken with the Sony a7iii and the Sony 85mm f/1.8 lens, or 135mm lens, at f/1.8.
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[@ducko1988]

Impressive composition and editing

[@diezijnleuk]

Thank you

[@lexistarlight3450]

Always wanted to do good photos...thank you for the tips

[@StellaandPeteyBulldogs]

I just found your RUclips channel!!! Now I’m going to be binge watching to catch up

[@simonbarrett4864]

Amazing as always xxx

[@InspawrationPhotography]

Thanks so much!!

[@Josephhits]

Olá, sou do Brasil e quero dizer que admiro muito sua arte fotográfica e a forma como explica muito bem! Continue nos presenteando com fotos tão lindas e deixaremos aqui sua dose de dopamina com amor ❤ Estou iniciando na fotografia pet e seus vídeos e estilo de edição são minhas referências! Muito obrigado.😍

[@jinxzsy3897]

Thank you I just got a camera and you’re videos really helped me !

[@InspawrationPhotography]

Awesome!!! Love to hear that!

[@barryg1406]

Kilchurn castle in the video?

[@daemon1143]

Whereabouts in the world is that lovely ruined building in the background of your images at about 3:43 ?
As a tip for people who don't have a fast portrait lens (and want more than the subtle touch shown here), if you want to blur a not very blurry background in Photoshop, the most natural looking blur (most like a real lens) is the tilt shift blur, with the selection point below the image or at the bottom of the frame, with the subject masked. Other good blur models, like gaussian, are pretty easy for a practiced eye to spot, even though they don't look bad, but if you pick the center point well, the tilt shift blur will look like the amount of blur changes with depth of field in your image, like a lens blur does.

[@dashawnreuben5314]

😔 *Promo sm*