On one of my photo tours to China, I asked a farmer if I could photograph his young daughter. She was four years old and somewhat intimidated by me, a strange looking foreigner, with a big camera that was pointed at her. She clung to her father's hand, and after I took the portrait I thought the two hands together spoke volumes and made an even better picture. As much as I like complete depth of field and focus throughout an image, this is an example where maximum bokeh was exactly what I needed. The nondescript, out of focus background is one hundred percent non-distracting, and it forces all of our attention exactly where it should be. My settings were 1/60, f/4.5, and 100 ISO.
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