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How to Actually Get Beautiful Bokeh: Lens Choice, Distance, and a Time Square Test
Clients started asking me for that “blurry background look” so often that I made a cheat sheet and taped it to the wall above my monitor. Most photographers understand bokeh conceptually, but when they try to replicate it, something goes flat. The background blurs a little but not enough. The circles of light look muddy. The subject doesn’t pop. The problem is almost never the camera. It’s the relationship between three variables that most tutorials explain in isolation rather than together: aperture, subject distance, and subject-to-background distance.