Practicing bokeh today

[mitsugirly]

I was bored and decided to head out to the yard and take a few shots.

This is a small tree out in my back yard that is starting to get bright red flower buds on it. I was down on the ground shooting upward threw the tree toward the sky. The clouds and sunset is in the background.

 

[Sherman Banks]

Practicing Bokeh is a funny statement- the practice of getting stuff out of focus in a shot. Anyways, your bokeh looks OK. You could've done without the upper flower breaking into the frame, and maybe went with an off-center placement of the subject. If it's just the bokeh you're concerned about, it has nice colors but it's nothing extraordinary. You have more photos from this same shoot?

 

[maulrat]

The main use for bokeh in my photos is to draw more attention to my subjects. In your photo, your background is competing with your subject; even when bokehed. If all you wanted was a blurry photo, just point your camera anywhere, manually place the lens out of focus, then take the shot. If you wanted the flowers to be the subject then perhaps choosing a less distracting background would have been more appropriate.

 

[dcclark]

Which of your lenses were you using?

 

[AlexColeman]

Your dead link needs cpr before I can comment.

 

[Dwig]

Practicing Bokeh is a funny statement-...

True, the OP is using the term "bokeh" incorrectly. What is meant in the post is "shallow depth of field" or "selective focus". You can't "practice bokeh"; "bokeh" is an intrinsic characteristic of a particular lens.
"Bokeh", in modern photographic jargon, refers more to the quality of the out of focus portion of the image, but ceretainly not to the quantity. I suggest you read this essay by the inventor of the term, Mike Johnson of The Online Photographer. The word originates as a Japanese word but Mike introduced a new spelling the differs from the traditional way the word is spelled with Latin characters.

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