How's this done?

digitallearner

hellop being kinda new to the whole shutter and aperature priority thing, i want to know how to take photos like this
with a Fujifilm F10. i want to take photos of a person about 5-8 feet away from me and have their background blurred out alot.
is it possible to do photos like this that are NOT in macro mode? because in know macro does it really nice for you already.
and i dont want to do too much photoshop.

any help please?

gtc

Dof
digitalm slr with fast lens and open aperture gives you the shallow depth of field that you are after-have a search for "depth of field" in here and elsewhere

colourbox

You're halfway there with the blurred background. I looked at a review of the Fujifilm F10 and it seems to be a point-and-shoot with few options. With that camera I would put the dial on Portrait mode, and then zoom the camera all the way to telephoto, step back, and fill the frame.

Setting it to Portrait mode will probably set the aperture to wide and hold it there, and zooming out to tele should blur the background even more. That's the best you're going to do with a point-and-shoot, I think. And it might not be that bad. Not much else you can do without a fast portrait lens on a DSLR set to wide open aperture.

USAIR

Well first it will be tough with that camera.
Open up the lens and get up close.

You can also fake it in ps
Check out this tute Using The Lens Blur
About half way down the page.

Fred