Bresson's masterful use of bokeh.

[Ilovemycam]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...resson_Plate_124_from_the_Decisive_Moment.jpg

 

[beachrat]

What exactly is "bokeh"?
Out of focus background?

 

[Ilovemycam]

What exactly is "bokeh"?
Out of focus background?

Yes

 

[JimMcClain]

Cartier-Bresson has a wonderful body of work and I enjoy his photography. But how is that example a "masterful use of bokeh"?

 

[KmH]

If it's about photography Off Topic Chat is an inappropriate forum for the thread per the Off Topic Chat forum description.

An out of focus (OOF) background is not bokeh.
An OOF background is depth-of-field.
How OOF a background is is adjustable by choosing a different combination of exposure triad settings.
Unless a different make/model of lens is mounted on the camera bokeh is not adjustable.
How many and the shape of lens aperture blades, lens optical quality, and other lens construction particulars determine what quality of bokeh a lens delivers.

 

[Dagwood56]

Bokeh & DOF - the differences between the two

 

[The_Traveler]

An OOF background is depth-of-field.

Hmmm. Maybe 'an OOF background is due the the shallowness of the Depth of Field. The area in focus, so-called 'within the Depth of Field', does not extend to include what is seen as the background."

 

[runnah]

I really don't understand the point of the OP's thread.

Besides we like to have more than just a link to a photo for a thread.

 

[jake337]

I really don't understand the point of the OP's thread.

Besides we like to have more than just a link to a photo for a thread.

I'm just surprised it wasn't a bunch of links to his photos.

 

[tirediron]

I'm not entirely sure I see this as masterful use of anything; rather, I think it was the natural result of the physical limitations of the lens design and the manner in which it was used.

 

[kundalini]

What exactly is "bokeh"?
Out of focus background?

Yes

I'm afraid "Yes" to answer the question is misleading. Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur, not the blur itself. Given subject-to-background distance, in addition with camera-to-subject distance, to my knowledge every lens can produce bokeh, but the quality of that bokeh is a direct result of lens design.

 

[Designer]

My understanding of the term "bokeh" is creamy smooth blur, which is not always realized in every lens. Only those lenses that produce smooth blur are said to produce "bokeh". Lenses that produce jittery blur are not capable of "bokeh".

I could be wrong about that.

 

[tirediron]

In technical terms, the use of the Japanese word 'bokeh' refers to the appearance of the unfocused elements of the image. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[KmH]

The Japanese word is 'boke' which is often used by Japanese in the sense of a mental haze or senility, but can also just mean a haze or a blur.
The spelling was altered to indicate proper pronunciation of the word boke in a 1997 edition of Photo Techniques magazine by an editor - bokeh.

 

[Ilovemycam]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...resson_Plate_124_from_the_Decisive_Moment.jpg

Wiki removed it. Copyright violation.

Here is another, smaller copy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mkd2lP5Gh...00/CartierBresson_Henri_Teheran_Iran_1950.png