A Load of Bokeh

[Rob_W]

Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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[Petraio Prime]

Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Yes, these are selective focus shots. Bokeh is the character of a lens, not selective focus.

 

[johngpt]

Yes, these are selective focus shots. Bokeh is the character of a lens, not selective focus.

In photography, bokeh[pronunciation?] is the blur,[1][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,[3][4][5] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."[6] Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively.[1] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

The following image could be considered a selective focus technique, but because the aesthetic quality of it's background blur is nil, I wouldn't say that it has good bokeh.

Another horse that has been beaten near to death, is whether "bokeh" refers to the general background blur or just the specular highlights that have been caused to blur by selective focus techniques. Most sources that have been quoted in this thread have found that bokeh can refer to both.

If at one point in time the term bokeh strictly referred to the lens and not the image created by selective focus, then as language always does, the term seems to have evolved to also include the image.

 

[DennyCrane]

Yes, these are selective focus shots. Bokeh is the character of a lens, not selective focus.

Please stop trolling the threads in this forum. Thank you.

 

[kundalini]

Sorry to disagree with you DennyCrane, but this should be an appeal to the community as a whole, not towards the individual. As we are both well aware, the direct approach has no effect to this person. We must not feed the troll. Let him stay in the Canon vs Nikon thread. This is incontrovertable



So...... since I added to the thread, might as well throw in an image.

 

[bigboi3]

35mm 1.8 DX no BOKEH @ f22

35mm 1.8 DX BOKEH @ f1.8

 

[kundalini]

A couple of birds.......

 

[mishele]

 

[bobnr32]

 

[D3KNikki]

jewelweed?

 

[err_ok]

I already added these elsewhere on the forum, but sshhh...





I hope I am getting the right idea with this whole bokeh thing. My impression has always been that it is the quality of the artifacts(?) in the out of focus areas but it's obvious there is some disagreement and according to that wikipedia article that is 'course bokeh' so who knows.

 

[johngpt]

If the out of focus areas of the image are pleasing to the eye, as yours are, then the prevailing opinion is that's good bokeh!

 

[johngpt]

BTW, this was an outstanding novel.

 

[bentcountershaft]

 

[javier]