Black&White Challenge: As much BOKEH as possible!

[zulu42]

 

[zulu42]

 

[Tropicalmemories]

To go for the max bokeh bonanza I used a wide aperture portrait lens focused as close as possible on a Venetian blind, with building lights in the distance.

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[smithdan]

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[charlie76]

My new 14mm Nikon lens has the most ridiculously shallow DOF I've ever seen...so here is some serious "bokah" (or whatever it's called). My girls found some fish guts at the river last weekend and the D850 totally nailed the focus.

 

[otherprof]

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That is an interesting use of bokeh in composition!

 

[zulu42]

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That is an interesting use of bokeh in composition!

Thank you. That's what is so great about these challenges: so many experimental images being created that would have never been...
It doesn't have to be a great image today. The experience expands technique and it will help down the road.

 

[jcdeboever]

 

[Soocom1]

 

[photoflyer]

So this was shot at max aperture of f 8. But, it was taken from about 3 meters away with a 400mm + 1.4 TC on a 1.6 crop.

This the foreground:

And this is the background, 30 meters away:

Thank goodness for bokeh.

 

[zombiesniper]

Red Winged Black Bird Male by Trevor Baldwin, on Flickr

 

[smithdan]

..last one from the Helios/2x setup

 

[Soocom1]