When Will The Bokeh Craze End

[vintagesnaps]

I haven't been on in several days and thought maybe by now it would've ended! But noooo...

I thought it was bo-kuuuhhh...

Smoke that's what I think, it's a thing that people seem to have seen online and try to copy it and seem to not even have basic skills to get decent photos. I've seen it done to the point that the people in a picture look like cardboard cutouts.

It just seems like with a lot of things, you need to learn basic skills, know how to use the proper tools/equipment, and PRACTICE. Then experiment with some techniques. Or like years ago, just get a p&s or today, just use the phone and take photos of friends and family and holidays and vacations and leave it at that.

What gets to me is that it seems like a lot of people are deluding themselves that they're photographers when they don't seem to want to learn about photography, and haven't developed necessary skills. Many don't seem to want to put in the time to learn and get good at it. Or learn about composition. Or how to frame shots. Or how to see a good potential photo. Or... I don't know what else! lol

When will it end? Not anytime soon since now apparently the phone manufacturers have figured out it's a thing, and they can promote their phones as being able to blur backgrounds and make bokeh. Doesn't matter if the peeps in the photos have no feet or things are on a lean...

 

[Derrel]

 

[Derrel]

 

[dennyr]

I thought it was circles of confusion

Another fad that cannot go way fast enough is photographers psychotic obsession with the word "Sharp"...... or worse (vomit) "Tack Sharp".
Photography would improve 9x if nobody ever worried about "that" again..... Ever.!

 

[pocketshaver]

I thought it was circles of confusion

Another fad that cannot go way fast enough is photographers psychotic obsession with the word "Sharp"...... or worse (vomit) "Tack Sharp".
Photography would improve 9x if nobody ever worried about "that" again..... Ever.!

Don't forget 90% of photography is teen agers trying to be trendy hipsters by posting 50 pictures of their lunch on instagram every day.

 

[Sharpshooterr]

Sorry Snaps, it was dead until I got involved!! LoL
I think that before anybody starts to talk something down, or “vomit” at the sound of it, you’d better at least be damn good at it!
So go ahead everyone, don’t be shy, SHOW us.
I don’t mean your OOF areas or blur....., I mean your BOKEH!!!!
SS

 

[SquarePeg]

I thought it was circles of confusion

Another fad that cannot go way fast enough is photographers psychotic obsession with the word "Sharp"...... or worse (vomit) "Tack Sharp".
Photography would improve 9x if nobody ever worried about "that" again..... Ever.!

Don't forget 90% of photography is teen agers trying to be trendy hipsters by posting 50 pictures of their lunch on instagram every day.

You definitely don’t have a teenager. They are over Instagram. The adults and advertisers took it over.

 

[smoke665]

Smoke that's what I think, it's a thing that people seem to have seen online and try to copy it and seem to not even have basic skills to get decent photos. I've seen it done to the point that the people in a picture look like cardboard cutouts.

Yup. Between cell phones, and clueless Ps wannabes, they've bastardized a creative element, to the point that it no longer resembles the beauty that it can add in a composition.

So go ahead everyone, don’t be shy, SHOW us.
I don’t mean your OOF areas or blur....., I mean your BOKEH!!!!

Okay Fig Of The Rising Sun
Or maybe another example with vintage glass. Softly In The Sunlight As I said earlier it has its place.

 

[Designer]

How do you know those photographers don’t know that the separation of foreground/background blur and it’s uses is not important?

They have written so.

They are newbies asking how to get "bokeh", and they don't know the basics.

That's how I know.

It sounds to me like you have a bit of disdain for those poor noobies.

If you had read this thread from the beginning, and if you had read anything I have written on the topic, then at least you would not be so ignorant.

Unfortunately, stupidity cannot be fixed.

 

[Designer]

Designer this is not directed at you in particular ..

Oh, good! I'm so glad!

You have been on this forum long enough to know that I always help the newbies, so I don't know how you and "Sharps" can be so darned wrong. I do my level best at explaining whatever is in question, and when have I ever spoken with disdain toward any newbie?

 

[zombiesniper]

So go ahead everyone, don’t be shy, SHOW us.
I don’t mean your OOF areas or blur....., I mean your BOKEH!!!!
SS

The quality or aesthetics of an out of focus area of an image is bokeh.
“Bokeh balls” is just an aesthetic quality of an out of focus area of an image that happens to have highlights.

Based on this a third of my entire flickr gallery has bokeh. Was that the intent? No however I shoot wildlife and it’s a hell of a lot harder at f20.

Now when will bokeh fall out of fashion is anyone’s guess. Be thankful the masses haven’t figured out if you cut a baby yoda silhouette out of paper and place it on your lens you could have baby Yoda bokeh balls and break the internet. Lol


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[waday]

advertisers took it over

Oh how true. Every fifth post is a sponsored ad (ETA: meaning, I scroll past 4 photos and the fifth is an ad...I'm not making this up), and even actual accounts that I follow are now turning into sponsors. It'll either be extremely blatant that it's an ad or they'll quietly hide #ad in their list of hashtags. I stopped using Facebook because of the ads, and I think I'm going to do the same with Instagram soon. Their algorithm for showing posts annoys me, and certain accounts now pay to have their picture shoved in my face. If I don't like one of those posts, it shows me it over and over and over. Sorry... I'll stop ranting about IG.

As for bokeh, my wife (and thus I, as well) have taken up watching the yearly Hallmark holiday/Christmas movies. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how ridiculous the filming has been? I feel like every movie has several scenes where they do a close up of each person separately and have the background completely blurred. In one movie we just watched, bokeh balls were everywhere and it almost looked like they tried to make them into snowflakes (or they just had a super dirty sensor on the camera). In another movie, I think the background was altered and fake blurred, because it nearly made me sick watching the scenes. The background moved oddly compared to the actors when panning--it was weird.

 

[smoke665]

Be thankful the masses haven’t figured out if you cut a baby yoda silhouette out of paper and place it on your lens you could have baby Yoda bokeh balls and break the internet. Lol

To late............How to make your own DIY magic bokeh balls with your printer - DIY Photography Just so you know I'm man enough to admit, I've done this. LOL

 

[vintagesnaps]

The best (or worst) part of that Smoke is that the photos that are the examples are terrible! lol

Go ahead and rant Wade, we're with ya! lol I first looked at Instagram, read the Terms, and decided - forget it! Then more recently I set up an account to be able to view someone's Instagram (related to cross stitch/embrodery), but I recently closed it out, I'd had enough of email notifications etc. even though I'd unchecked every box possible!! lol I think you kind of start to realize, who needs it? do you miss it when you stop using it? So far I haven't.

 

[SquarePeg]

advertisers took it over

Oh how true. Every fifth post is a sponsored ad (ETA: meaning, I scroll past 4 photos and the fifth is an ad...I'm not making this up), and even actual accounts that I follow are now turning into sponsors. It'll either be extremely blatant that it's an ad or they'll quietly hide #ad in their list of hashtags. I stopped using Facebook because of the ads, and I think I'm going to do the same with Instagram soon. Their algorithm for showing posts annoys me, and certain accounts now pay to have their picture shoved in my face. If I don't like one of those posts, it shows me it over and over and over. Sorry... I'll stop ranting about IG.

As for bokeh, my wife (and thus I, as well) have taken up watching the yearly Hallmark holiday/Christmas movies. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how ridiculous the filming has been? I feel like every movie has several scenes where they do a close up of each person separately and have the background completely blurred. In one movie we just watched, bokeh balls were everywhere and it almost looked like they tried to make them into snowflakes (or they just had a super dirty sensor on the camera). In another movie, I think the background was altered and fake blurred, because it nearly made me sick watching the scenes. The background moved oddly compared to the actors when panning--it was weird.

The Hallmark Christmas movie Christmas light bokeh balls are eclipsed only by the Hallmark Christmas movie fake snow. And let us not forget the Hallmark Christmas movie street scenes where even the alleys and dumpsters are decorated.

as you may have guessed, I’ve seen enough of these to last a Lifetime movie dramatic pause.