I was taking some pictures of Samantha for her 18-month picture and decided to go with my 50mm f/1.8 in order to get the focus on her face and make as much around her blurred out. When I uploaded to Lightroom, there were six images that I had taken from this vantage point and none of those had her face in focus.

At first, I was a bit disappointed in myself for not paying better attention to where I was focusing as there is very little distance between where the image is sharp versus where it starts to blur with my aperture set at f/2.0. Now as I look at it, I like the effect it made however I need to get out and work more with my “nifty-fifty” to improve on those shallow depth-of-field images.

Exposure: 1/400 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200.