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  3. Shooting with a telephoto lens from a short distance and with an open aperture.
Telephoto lenses by nature have lower depth resolution than standard and wide-angle lenses. They allow obtaining spectacular blurring of the background only at fully opened aperture and close distance to the main element of the shot (See photo 6).

 
   6. Sparrow is perched in two meters from me. I extended telezoom Nikkor 70- 200/ 2,8 VR with a teleconverter 1,4. This allowed me to impose the bird on a highly defocused image of illuminated store advertising.

   4. Shooting with a telephoto lens from a far distance with a moderately closed aperture.
Telephoto lenses have one more feature peculiar only to them: they can appreciably draw together foreground and background. If shooting is performed in a distance close to hyperfocal, the difference between acute main object and blurred background becomes insignificant. All objects forming the background remain recognizable. At that an illusion of background crawling over the main part of the shot can be created. The kissing couple seems as if they sit under the chairs of the first row. In fact they don’t. There are at least six meters between the lawn where the beloved sit and the spectators.

 
  7. Jazz festival in “Hermitage” garden. From series “Moscow for kisses”. Camera Model Name - Nikon F 5. Camera lens Nikkor 80-200/2,8. Film Fujipress 400 ÀÑÀ. Exposure 1/200 sec. Aperture value 4.