Picture this: After tons of research, you finally pulled the trigger and bought yourself that brand new DSLR that you spent MONTHS dreaming about. And now you’re sitting there— freshly unboxed camera in hand—thinking, “YES!! The world is mine for the taking! Now I can FINALLY get that professional look with the blurry backgrounds in ALL of my photos!” So you go out and shoot your first round of photos that you’re convinced are going to be total game changers, you pop your memory card into your computer and—cue record scratch—they don’t look ANYTHING like you had imagined and, what?!, there’s not a single blurry background to be seen! What gives?!

Picture this: After tons of research, you finally pulled the trigger and bought yourself that brand new DSLR that you spent MONTHS dreaming about. And now you’re sitting there— freshly unboxed camera in hand—thinking, “YES!! The world is mine for the taking! Now I can FINALLY get that professional look with the blurry backgrounds in ALL of my photos!” So you go out and shoot your first round of photos that you’re convinced are going to be total game changers, you pop your memory card into your computer and—cue record scratch—they don’t look ANYTHING like you had imagined and, what?!, there’s not a single blurry background to be seen! What gives?!