Digital photography

no wonder! that is a bloody nice shot!

as a tip in laymen's terms (no offence) if you are further away from your subject but you are zoomed in* on them & your subject is a decent distance from any background (like in that picture) then your Depth of field will drop off quicker creating that blurred background a lot easier :) hope this helps a little

Haha I'm not quite inexperienced to not know that, but thanks for not overestimating my knowledge, it's easier to spell it out and build up! I'll try and upload some of my own shots tomorrow so you can see what sort of quality I'm working with at the moment.

And yeah that bloke has his photo on the cover of Dirt magazine this month, not bad for a 21 year old! His pans are amazing as well, you should check them out

@Jonathan, thanks for the offer but I'll be back at Sheffield uni next week!