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Isn’t that a different image? I didn’t see that much fence in the background of the first one. Ok, the last photo you posted may have too much editing for my taste. I’m assuming that you used a masking brush to blur the rest of the image in between the fence link blur. Just from my perspective, there’s a little too much color, the white balance is too “pink”, and the blurring is a little too strong. Trying to blur the background that much in editing doesn’t look natural. To improve the bokeh, you just need to: use a fast shutter speed, the widest aperture possible, zoom in as far as possible, and get the subject as close to the lens as possible. I’ll attach a image that I tried to blur in Lightroom, and you will see that the subject looks like it’s trying to “pop” out of the image. For some reason it just doesn’t look right to me.
Keep trying, and let me know what you come up with!


