Since I started using the Canon T3i Rebel SLR Camera, a lot of viewers have been asking how I get my video to have a blurry background. As you can see in a lot of my videos, I’m quite sharp (where you can see my wrinkles) and the background is blurry or not in focused. Well, inside video I reveal the secret on how this is done. It took me a while to figure this out and no one actually has created a video I could find to show me how this was done!

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Items Mentioned Inside This Video:

• What is aperture

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Tyrone Shum

Transcript:

Hi, it’s Tyrone Shum from Outsourcing Live. Now are you seeing anything different? I’m in black and white. How’s that for special effects for you? I thought I’d just give you a little change around just to see what it’s like. If you like it, let me know. If you don’t, that’s cool.

Create That Blurry Effect Using SLR Cameras By Replacing Lens

I just want to play around with this camera because the fact is, is that I’ve been trying so many new things in the last few months and I finally found something I really like and has been working really well. Now, in this video, I’m going to share with you very, very shortly a little tip that I’ve been playing around with. And the thing is, is that a lot of people have been asking me how do I get this little blurry blurry background in a lot of my videos and get the focal point on just me. And it looks very professional and looks very, very nice as well, too. And that’s been a lot of the compliments I’ve been getting from you and also a lot of my followers and viewers. So firstly thank you very much for that.

Now, I’ll give you a very little tip and sneak just to show you exactly what it is. But I won’t tell you right now because I want to share with you how I got to that because it did take me a lot of trials and testing and all that kind of stuff and I wanted to let you know how it does work because the thing is, there’s no point having it setup and not understanding how to get there because I wish I knew this when I first started.

Going back a few months ago, I was kind of planning about upgrading to a new camera and I’ve been using the Kodak Zi8 for quite some time and you’ve seen a lot of my videos where everything’s in high definition and the quality is pretty good. It’s just that you don’t have that nice blurry background effect and also focus on the camera. And also too, I required a lot of extra equipment such as lighting and also making sure that I have the right angles here and there to make sure that the camera captures it correctly.

Canon T3i Flip LCD Screen And Fixed Lenses

Whereas this particular camera that I’m currently using now, which is the Canon T3i, I don’t really need to do anything. I don’t even have lighting on my face at this point in time. Everything is used by natural light and the adjustment of the camera. That’s the powerful thing about getting an SLR camera like the Canon T3i. No matter what camera you’re going for, just make sure it does have a proper video function like this one and that’s why I recommend the Canon T3i which is in another video that I talked about previously is it’s got this nice little flip LCD screen that comes comes on the back instead of having to – sort of I guess work where you’re sitting, you can flip the LCD screen around and watch yourself talk so that way you can have that right vocal. Right now I’m talking to it and I can see myself talk which is a bit bizarre.

But anyway, all right so that’s basically where I led to end. I had to ask around because I had absolutely no idea and I was thinking I thought it’s something to do with the camera itself, the settings and all that and after around I thought I’ll just ask a few people around. And unfortunately not everyone was able to tell me exactly what to do so I had to figure it out myself. In the end, one person said to me to get a different lens and that does the trick.

The Smaller The F Stop, The Bigger The Aperture (And Cost)

So the whole concept is if you have a Canon SLR camera or any type of camera, all you need to do is buy a lens with a smaller aperture. And what that means by an aperture is basically the whole size of your lens and the smaller the whole size, the more it focuses on your point which is my face and let everything else blur in the background. And that’s to do with what we call the term aperture. I won’t go in too much detail about it but I’ll put an article link to it to explain what an aperture is. And essentially what I’ve done is I’ve purchased this Canon 50mm. lens which is a fixed lens just to be specific, a fixed lens and it’s an F1.8 which is the aperture size. And what you want to do is get the smallest aperture. Now, the smaller the aperture, the more expensive it becomes and it jumps up dramatically in price from 1.8 down to 1.4. And the price difference is roughly about $100 for this lens and about $300 for that other lens.

You might see just a slight little quality difference. I have seen the slight little quality difference but I wasn’t interested in paying that extra because I don’t think my viewers like yourself would probably even notice. So really that’s how you do it. Just get a separate different lens. Make sure you have an SLR camera and a fixed lens makes a difference because then you don’t have to worry about fixing up the zoom and all that stuff and an F1.8 is more than sufficient enough to get that nice blur.

Currently you might be wondering what camera lens am I using, I’m just using my standard one which is a zoom and it’s a 3.5 so I don’t get as much focal – I guess blur in the background with this particular notice because you probably won’t notice because it’s in black and white. That’s the reason why I did it and you’ll probably also won’t notice too much difference if you are just watching on video like you are now. So anyway that’s the little trick, that’s the tip on what to do. And if you are interested in doing it, that’s all you need to do.

All right, let me know what your thoughts are. I really appreciate all your feedback and I really appreciate any comments because a lot of them – these videos I create are based on what you ask me so I create them to answer most of your questions here. All right thanks so much for watching. My name is Tyrone Shum from Outsourcing Live and I’ll see you in the next video. Bye for now.

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