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- Hey guys, greetings from Finland.
If you're new to the channel, my name's Matti.
Actually, in Finnish, you would say, Matti Haapoja.
But for all you English speakers, Matti is fine.
And today, I'm here with my twin brother.
- We're having a catastrophe here.
- What's happening?
- Disconnected.
It's gonna crash.
Look, it's coming right down, actually
right on top of you.
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- You can cancel it, can't you?
- No, I can't.
It's disconnected, I can't do anything.
Luckily came back.
Ah!
- Ooh, safe and sound.
- I thought I crashed that one.
- Actually, I lied.
He is not my twin brother.
Bonus points if you can guess who's older, and by how much.
Bonus points.
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And actually, he just started his YouTube channel too.
Does a lot of photography and videography related stuff,
tutorials, kinda like me.
So you should definitely check him out.
And there's even an exclusive Q and A that I just did
with my brother, so you should go and
check out his channel.
I'll link it down below.
Go and subscribe to him.
- Yeah, do it. - Subscribe.
- Just subscribe. - Just do it.
- Just click that button right here.
Just click that button right there.
- Right there.
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But today, we're gonna talk about that sweet, sweet bokeh,
that nice, shallow depth of field that you can get.
It's super cinematic.
I love how it just isolates your subject.
It's one of my favorite techniques to do.
But, the question is, what's the best way to get
that sweet, sweet bokeh?
And I thought I'd let my brother take the first tip
on how to get that sweet, sweet bokeh.
- Tip number one, you wanna use fast lenses.
You wanna get at least 2.8 or faster.
But here's the shot at 5.6, 2.8, 1.8, and 1.4.
Notice the drastic difference between 5.6 and 1.4.
Now remember, you don't need to spend a lot
of money on lenses.
You can even get the Nifty Fifty for
about a hundred dollars.
- The Nifty Fifty is a 50 mill, 1.8, great lens.
- And you get that sweet, sweet bokeh.
- Number two, what you can do is just get closer
to your subject.
I'm not gonna go into the details of why this works,
but the closer you get to your subject, the more
background blur you're gonna have.
Or the further away you move your background
from your subject, so just bring your subject
away from that background, the more blur you're gonna get.
So here, for example, is a shot at F2.8, five meters
away from the subject.
Now we're three meters away.
And now we're less than one meter away, and you can tell
how much more background blur, or bokeh there is
when you're closer up.
So that's one way to get that sweet, sweet bokeh.
And then lastly, to get more of that sweet, sweet bokeh,
you can just use a zoom lens.
So the bigger the zoom, the more background bokeh
you're gonna get.
Again, I'm not gonna go into explaining why this is,
just take my word for it; use a zoom lens.
So here's an example of the same framing at F2.8,
first at 35 mill, then we have a 70 mill,
and then a 200 mill.
Notice how much more background blur there is on
the 200, compared to the 35 mill, even though it's
exact same framing.
If you don't have a super fast lens, like an F2.8 or
faster, this is a great way to get some of that
really nice background blur, that sweet, sweet bokeh.
So there you go, three easy, easy ways to get
some of that sweet, sweet bokeh, that nice background blur,
and don't forget to check out my brother's channel.
You should definitely go sub right now, button,
go sub, right now.
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If you didn't do it yet, just do it.
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