Post your bokeh rich shots!

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miknoypinoy

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found this on the hard drive. .. .(heres my model again. . . shes gave me the look that day. . lol) may be could have stopped down a bit but it still came out alright wide open. . .

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Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D7000
Lens: 80.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Image Date: 2011-11-14 14:56:42 -0800
Focal Length: 112.0mm (35mm equivalent: 168mm)
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure Time: 0.0025 s (1/400)
ISO equiv: 800
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Manual
Light Source: Cloudy
Flash Fired: No (enforced)
Orientation: Normal
Color Space: Adobe RGB (1998)
GPS Coordinate: undefined, undefined
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows




 
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AC016

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I have looked at all the pictures in here and i must say that many passed with flying colors! As i have understood "bokeh", it is to draw attention to the subject of the photo by blurring the background - having "bokeh" balls makes it even better. However, just because you blur the background in a picture, it does not necessarily mean it is "bokeh". I think the term is misused many times and misinterpreted many times. Again, the subject of the photo has to be the central focus of the shot, it has to stand out, jump out at you and that is done by making "bokeh" in the background. There has to be a central point of focus, you have to draw out the story or the subject of the photo. Anyhow, i have some good shots of my daughter - candid ones - and there is some decent "bokeh" and bokeh balls, drawing her out from the background and centering focus on her, which i what the picture is supposed to do. Plenty of shots of flowers with the same effect as well. Doing this with a nifty-fifty wide open, is very easy. Sorry, i will not post pics of my daughter here, so don't bother asking. Anyhow, loved looking at the pictures, very very nice indeed.
 
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AC016

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evansjanet820 said:
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In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.
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Yikes! You could have atleast changed some of the words. No need to copy/paste from Wikipedia to impress anyone. Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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