pure bokeh - nothing to distract you from blurriness

Yesterday I posted about bokeh. This is actually a rare post for me, in that it was taken on an SLR.

So I was later asked: how to take that photo?  Well, on an SLR it’s fairly easy: turn focus to manual (on my SLR, I just move a switch), and make sure the background is nice and blurry.  Tot the right: an exact example.

If you’re focusing on something, then the background needs to be a suitable distance away, and the f/stop needs to be as large (low number) as possible.

On a point & shoot?  It can be done, but it’s trickier.  That may come in a later post, someday.