CagneyDog, well I mean the Macro and Flash together take a picture, but it doesn't create the softened/blended background effect. It's just like taking a normal pic

Freckles, excuse my ignorance, but what in the heck is "F16"? LOL, I'm *really* bad at this camera stuff. Also, slleipnir, I always have the camera set to the little head (portrait?) but it never comes out like your picture of the bird! Are you sure you don't have other settings on your camera going on?