CONTRIBUTED BY PAMELA OLIVERAS

Okistephie is back showing us minimalism with this shot of the beautiful sakura. Actually her husband took this shot. Good job hubby!

If you are shooting with an SLR and want to just focus on one part of a shot (like in this one) it is great to open up that aperture (which is actually the lowest F number your lens goes to (f/1.8, etc) and then you can isolate your subject, taking the background out of focus and making for a dramatic shot...the out of focus points and they way they are rendered are known as boke (or bokeh)...