How do I remove Bokeh???!!

Dao · Dec 31, 2012

480sparky said:
Dao said:

........Like how Disney make their animations.

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Didn't realize painted animation cels were so thick they needed focus stacking.

Stack multiple photos into one frame. And frame by frame.

480sparky · Dec 31, 2012

Dao said:
Stack multiple photos into one frame. And frame by frame.

I understand focus stacking. But I didn't realize Uncle Walt did it with animation cels. After all, they're flat.

Of course, they don't use cels any more... it's all done digitally.

TheFantasticG · Dec 31, 2012

o hey tyler said:
I can't help but feel like the op is trolling hard.

Yep. I got the same feeling.

Tony S · Dec 31, 2012

I really wish some one would burn forever the term "bokeh", it's so misused.

99.9% of the time the subject being talked about is depth of field, whether shallow or deep.

Buckster · Dec 31, 2012

Tony S said:
I really wish some one would burn forever the term "bokeh", it's so misused.

99.9% of the time the subject being talked about is depth of field, whether shallow or deep.

Agreed. It's almost never about the quality of the OOF areas.

keith foster · Dec 31, 2012

My recommendation would be to shoot on a green screen and shoot the background separately. It will much easier than trying to get the kind of DOF you are talking about when you are shooting so close to the subject. Even zooming isn't probably going to work unless you have a high dollar, very stable video tripod.

There are some fairly inexpensive video editing softwares that allow you do to do the green screen process.

iHateBokeh · Dec 31, 2012

Is there software that lets me do green screen live, so I know how it's looking? I have a Mac pro and a t3i. Nonetheless, thanks for the answers thus far. When I get home tomorrow I will post examples of the blurriness and what I would like it to look like.

AaronLLockhart · Dec 31, 2012

Sometimes I think that all of this photographic knowledge starts to run together in the brains of some of the people that post here. Bokeh is directly related to depth of field, as it is the term that describes the aesthetic quality of the blur pertaining to the objects outside the area of focus, or outside the lenses DoF.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

keith foster · Dec 31, 2012

There is probably one that will give you a preview while you are filming but it would require a huge amount of processing power and there would have to some delay.
The software and the processing you would need would be movie studio kind of stuff. I can't think of anything at the consumer level that would do it but I could be wrong. I haven't actually tried to do it so haven't investigated the possibilities.

keith foster · Dec 31, 2012

I just did a quick Google search and apparently there are some ways to do it. Here is a link to a video tutorial on Vimeo that shows one way to do it. I only watched the first
30 seconds so can't judge how difficult it would be.

At least gives you a starting point.

Overread · Dec 31, 2012

Ok guys lets stop throwing around random "Troll" comments. If you're concerned about posts report them to the mod team and then leave it be and lets focus on the actual question and matter at hand (and if you don't want to answer just move along).

Another though to add to the matters is the use of tilt-shift lenses. Using a tilt shift at range would let the photographer control the plane of focus far more directly. I know that product photography often makes use of tilt shift lenses so stop motion style would also be another area I'd expect to see it appear.

Buckster · Dec 31, 2012

In light of the direction this is taking on the super-computing power and special software, I'll just reiterate what Sparky posted:

480sparky said:
Use wider-angle lenses and smaller apertures.

Learn how to calculate Hyperfocal Distance.

It's gonna be tough with the 50mm. But with something like the 20mm @ f/22, you can hyperfocal everything into focus from 1.56 feet to infinity. Just lock it in on your lens and start shooting. As long as nothing you want in focus gets closer than a foot and a half from the camera, you're golden all the way, no fuss, no muss.

unpopular · Dec 31, 2012

So does bokeh then refer to the quality of the OOF region, or specifically the airy disk itself? Why not just discuss the airy disk? To me bokeh is more a subjective quality which relates to technically specific optical qualities. But i've seen good bokeh with "bad" airy disk profiles.

And don't get me started on swirl (lentil-shaped airy disk), a quality which people have convinced themselves is a good thing. It's not. It's icky and makes me feel all barfy!

Mully · Dec 31, 2012

They did not have bokeh when I was growing up..... funny how it just came to be when I was not looking

Derrel · Dec 31, 2012

Mully said:
They did not have bokeh when I was growing up..... funny how it just came to be when I was not looking

Mully...when you were growing up there also was no "Starbucks"...there was just "Folgers" coffee (oh, and Maxwell House!).

Mully...when you were growing up there also was no "cell phones"...just big old land line phones called "telephones".

Mully...when you were growing up there also was no vintage wine...just Boone's Farm (and Mogen David!!!).

Mully...when you were growing up there also was no computers...just the old-timey abacus!!!