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>>111624 Focusing closer and adjusting distance to subject and focal length.
Backfocusing a bit obviously means more blur right behind the subject, but don't over-do it.
A good trick to do to accentuate nice bokeh (or even just an in-focus background) when it's already there and the image is in monochrome is to lightly burn the background. I get the best results in Photoshop doing this this way: New layer, soft light, fill with 50% neutral; Burn tool, no hardness on the brush, not much opacity at all, set it to highlights. Don't go over the same spot twice on a different click of the mouse.
I think in some film darkroom way whoever Cartier-Bresson used to print his photographs did something like this on that famous shot of the guy with the cloak and umbrella turned around with a tree-lined road receding behind him. There's a little bright halo around him that suggests the remainder of the print was burned and the printer didn't want to get too close to him. (That is 100% a guess based on what I get sometimes doing an imprecise job of this in Photoshop. I know next to nothing about darkrooms or film printing, so it could be something else entirely.)
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