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10/24/2006 12:36:51 PM · #26 |
Sometimes, the worse the bokeh, the more pleasing it is to the eye.
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10/24/2006 12:45:55 PM · #27 |
Bokeh is pretty crazy isn't it!
Thanks Ursula for the advice on that. I will enter the best image on your recomendation, and now I have learned what Bokeh is right?! :)
As Sir Topum Hat would say "Jason, you have caused confusion and delay". - (I have young kids and all I get to watch is Thomas the Tank Engine.)
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10/24/2006 04:38:58 PM · #28 |
Personally, I will be voting on whether bokeh helps make the image better. If people are adding the limited depth of field just to meet the challenge, even though it does not enhance the photo I will vote accordingly.
I do not care about the lens quality of the bokeh. That is just nitpicking on people's personal equipment.
My ideal vote would be a picture that wouldn't work if it didn't have the limited depth (bokeh). If the picture could have been taken at f8 just as easily it is going to get a low score for me. At least that is how I plan to vote. Of course uniformity and context in the bokeh will be important too. |
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10/24/2006 04:45:29 PM · #29 |
I have a question about the bokeh-donuts.
DrAchoo allready commented on this photo:  :
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
The bokeh, I fear, is really weird with the donut look. There's probably not much you can do about that. |
Well, it seems like it's something people don't really like (I didn't know that, because I do like it, weird huh!) but my question is: what's causing the donut look? I thought I had a pretty good lens, but now it seems like I don't really? How can I make sure these donuts don't appear? |
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10/24/2006 05:33:16 PM · #30 |
| thanks for posting that! I had no idea waht bokeh doughnuts were when reading this thread earlier. I learn something new every day!! ;P |
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10/24/2006 05:40:29 PM · #31 |
| from reading the first page on bokeh.. i'm confused on the whole circles thing... maybe i'm just reading it wrong. But is bokeh all about circles or is it something else?? I read the directions, and was a bit confused, mine does have circles in it, just in a totally different and have to find it way.. i guess I'm not real clear on what bokeh is maybe.. oh grr.. i'm confused now.. lol.. sorry if i've confused anyone else.. |
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10/24/2006 05:52:48 PM · #32 |
I can hardly believe after 1 week and 3 threads (and that is only for this current challenge) that the debate about bokeh is still going around and around!
bokeh = out of focus bits in a photographic image
"good" bokeh = when the viewer finds the out of focus bits in a photographic image pleasing...some like circles, some like smoothness, some like both
"Quality" of bokeh = ??? For an attempt at defining "Quality" (with a big Q) I direct you to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig. (...and yes, that's a Wikipedia link.)
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10/24/2006 05:57:35 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by biteme:
Well, it seems like it's something people don't really like (I didn't know that, because I do like it, weird huh!) but my question is: what's causing the donut look? I thought I had a pretty good lens, but now it seems like I don't really? How can I make sure these donuts don't appear? |
I'm not even sure. Mirror lenses can cause such a bokeh, but I don't think that lens is one of those. I saw a number of reviews saying the bokeh is nice on the 28-70mm. You notice that not all the circles of confusion have the issue.
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10/24/2006 06:25:50 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by misscrystal:
from reading the first page on bokeh.. i'm confused on the whole circles thing... maybe i'm just reading it wrong. But is bokeh all about circles or is it something else?? I read the directions, and was a bit confused, mine does have circles in it, just in a totally different and have to find it way.. i guess I'm not real clear on what bokeh is maybe.. oh grr.. i'm confused now.. lol.. sorry if i've confused anyone else.. |
it's actually really simple, and all this talk of circles and donuts has just muddled the definition. bokeh is, quite literally, the aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, period.
if that includes circles, then so be it, but circles are most definitely not required. |
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10/24/2006 06:42:27 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by biteme:
but my question is: what's causing the donut look? I thought I had a pretty good lens, but now it seems like I don't really? How can I make sure these donuts don't appear? |
This article is pretty good at describing bokeh. If you scroll down, it addresses "doughnuts" and their cause.
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10/24/2006 10:28:01 PM · #36 |
Thanks for that lesgainous - interesting.
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10/24/2006 10:32:02 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by samchad:
Thanks for that lesgainous - interesting. |
My pleasure. And, oh yeah, Wikipedia is your friend. :-)
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