A Load of Bokeh

[Stryker]

 

[Joel_W]

fake flowers and out of focus lights

Are you sure these are fake Anthuriums? The leaves and stems look like the real deal. BTW, why did you decide to produce them digitally in B&W when their spectacular colors are such a prominent feature ?

 

[Forkie]

Untitled by Forkie, on Flickr

 

[xj0hnx]

All Up In It by xj0hnx, on Flickr

 

[jake337]

 

[mishele]

 

[michakac]

pentacon 50/1.8 (price abou 30 $ ) with dslr :

 

[johngpt]

fake flowers and out of focus lights

Are you sure these are fake Anthuriums? The leaves and stems look like the real deal. BTW, why did you decide to produce them digitally in B&W when their spectacular colors are such a prominent feature ?

Joel, I'm not sure that these are fake. I felt them, and they felt plastic-y. But the plants that are there now are real, so perhaps these were. Or these were plastic, and real ones are there now because real ones are now available? And the reason I went with mono is that in color, the flowers were not able to be emphasized well enough against the background. There was too much color in the background to show the flowers as the real subject of the image, and the mono conversion emphasizes the shapes that I really liked.

 

[rexbobcat]

pentacon 50/1.8 (price abou 30 $ ) with dslr :

Even for f/1.8 the first photo's DOF looks incredibly shallow.

 

[llamatina]

DSC_0302 by llamatina, on Flickr

Shot with a d90 and 50mm 1.8!

 

[Stryker]

 

[Stryker]

 

[Stryker]

 

[Forkie]

This is stunning. :hail:

 

[jake337]