Hi, I tend to choose a DOF that just begins to distinguish what the backgroung is, espocially is I am taking a portrait, and especially if the person is in a surrounding that adds to that person. I do this because having the background too much out of focus ends up creating a 'netral backdrop' effect, where I dent to prefer just making out rhat the objects / people are within the frame, but keeping them well blurred. An example would be, on a 50mm lens, with subject say 1meter away and rest of the frame roughly 4-5 m, using an aperture of around 5.6 or 6.7 (1/2 stop more).
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