Photo theme #16: BOKEH (May 13–25)

[Cav]

only kidding.

 

[Tigerjones]

Group hug.

 

[stevied]

 

[matthewr]

"Nice Bokeh Shame about the Picture"



A couple of others I like a bit more but are less bokehery.

 

[Cesare]

Matthew,

You need to get yourself a star filter and retake that first one to get the full bling hollywood effect. I like the second one with the mask.

Bokeh isn't all about backgrounds that look like watercolours. It's easy to get that sort of wash look but a decent lens with decent bokeh gives a soft out of focus look which is very pleasing for stuff just outside the focal plane, and that's what I personally find interesting to play with.

Cesare

 

[RichardH]

Yes Cesare, I agree with you - I think in hindsight my shots are too much background blur, not enough bokeh.

 

[Joe P]

I've put the entries in one post for easier viewing.

Pete, mad/bad

Uzinusa

Cesare

Artioneer

Steveinspain

Cliff Patterson

Kit Taylor

Omers

Guybat

Re-Joyce

concrete

RichardH

James

Cav

pleaser, purple

pete, mental

Stevied

Matthew "ZOMG!Laz0rsPEWPEWPEW!!11!" r

Lots of good entries, making it hard to choose just one, but after poring over the pix I've awarded bragging rights to Omer for his masterpiece, rabid dog and blurred mother-in-law.

Congratulations, Omer. Feel free to start a new theme.

Joe

 

[cliffpatte]

Congratulations to Omer, the blurry figure on the left of the dog was like something out of a sci-fi movie.

What happened to Vuk? I know it's not midnight in Canada yet and only just past 2pm in blighty.

Cliff

PS Joe, I hope you were poring or even pawing over them rather than pouring over them

 

[matt j]

Alright chaps, some fantastic shots so far!

Have I understood bokeh correctly with this pic below? I'm not too bothered about it being a good picture or not just thought I'd ask some of you knowledgeable chaps opinion, I'm pretty new to all this so go easy if I've got it wrong!!

 

[cliffpatte]

Matt, thats a nicely composed picture (albeit probably a crop)

Bokeh has many aspects - too many to list, but includes

- nice fade from in focus to out of focus
- gentle separation of in focus from bits you don't want the viewer to concentrate on
- interesting highlights from out of focus areas to jazz up an image
- a way to generate 3 dimensional effect from foreground and background blur and the Object in focus.

etc etc etc

 

[Joe P]

Cliff,

Sorry, there's a mistake in the theme's title. The theme ended a minute to midnight yesterday (Joe time). See the first post -- "The contest runs from May 13 (this very second) until May 24 23:59 EDT."

Joe

P.S. I'm poring now.

 

[matt j]

Thanks cliff, yeah I had to crop it for the size limit also loads of blank background from the top of the image as it made it look rubbish IMO, are crops bad?

 

[Joe P]

Matt,

Crops aren't bad per se, but it's good habit to take the picture you wanted when you took the picture.

Joe

 

[matt j]

Ahh I see, it would've looked rubbish though cause I had the camera on its side so got a lot of space above the body of the guitar, I'm not sure how I could've altered that without cropping it TBH. still, not bad for a point and shoot lol.

 

[cliffpatte]

Given that the guitar is wider than it is deep, shooting it landscape would have made sense, but it sometimes depends on the capability of your lens. I have one 50mm lens which only focuses down to 1 metre, making it impossible to take the shot you did without cropping. I also have a Sigma zoom which on a crop body (eg the S5 Pro) could probably take the shot uncropped - well actually cropped by the sensor size

PS The Rich GR II has a 1*1 option too

 

[vuk]

my slide film isn't ready yet, so all i have is this:

vuk.

 

[Mick P]

Vuk

Not your best example.

Regards

Mick

 

[matthewr]

"Vukflakes" the cereal, perhaps?

 

[omers]

I've awarded bragging rights to Omer for his masterpiece, rabid dog and blurred mother-in-law.

Congratulations, Omer. Feel free to start a new theme.

Joe

Thanks Joe and Cliff and Vuk from earlier, I kind of lost hope after all the excellent entries.

I would like to thank Chance, my half brother's dog, and my mother in law, both of whom hopefully never find out about it. Speaking of bragging rights.

Omer.

 

[Pete MB&D]

Hi, Joe

Wife says I should have won ;-) But I think Cesare or RichardH should share the win with Omer


Pete