Play With Depth Of Field

First and foremost we need to know what is actually Depth of field. Depth Of Field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

See the picture below,

When I use the flash, DOF effect does not look as I wanted.

In this photo, I turn off my camera flash, and now the DOF seem overwhelming and the subject is becoming more prominent

This is another example where I try to combine the DOF & Bokeh in a photo .. It seems more interesting and complete with features that should exist in a portrait photo (DOF, 1/3rule & Bokeh)