Once you learn aperture you will be able to control the blur of your background.
This setting is helping portrait photographers create images where the person is totally in focus but, the background is blurred out.
In the video below professional photographer Jared Polin from Fro Knows Photo walks us through aperture settings from F1.4 all the way up to F16. You’ll get to see visually exactly what affect each f-stop has on the background of the photo. Also you’ll notice that as the f-stop increases the shutter speed slows down. T This is so the camera can let in more light.
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