Stephomy @stephomy gave me this challenge: pick an object in your yard, or outside of where you live, and to take a proper "portrait" -- use a narrow DOF a.k.a. low aperture number so that the background is out of focus. After casting about for something appropriate to make a portrait of, this little guy agreed to come outside and sit for me. The lowest aperture number my camera has is 3.7 so to encourage the out of focus background somewhat I also set it to macro mode, even though I wasn't doing a macro.
This is a good attempt I think. Maybe if you moved around a bit and changed your perspective you could get a background that gives more contrast in colour, as your lens doesn't give as much blur as you might want. Hope you don't mind my suggestion.
