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Re: What is bokeh?
Bokeh is described as the appearance of the out of focus areas of an image. Bokeh can be described as "good bokeh" when the OOF areas are smooth, buttery soft, with smooth, even, round, ( not polygonal ) highlights. So yes your image has bokeh, just not great bokeh in my opinion. Not bad, but not great either. -
Re: What is bokeh?
My favourite link on the topic; although it's entitled Bokeh Test, it demonstrates the difference between good and bad bokeh, and also gets into terminology for different kinds of bokeh; such as "bright edge" bokeh and "double line" bokeh. It's long, and when I first saw it, I skimmed through it quickly to the photos, then… -
Re: What is bokeh?
Nix (and others), i think that you may be confusing bokeh for depth of field. as posted here before bokeh can most simply be described as the quality or appearance of the out of focus (OOF) area in the shot. Ideally good bokeh will render the OOF to be undeterminable as to what it actually is. While 'less than adequate'… -
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Re: What is bokeh?
Don, Antonio, guys & gals all, I died not make my post to single anyone's images out, and I certainly was not criticizing either Don's or Antonio's. I just thought the thread was beginning to wander from an accurate representation of good or bad bokeh, into a mishmash of some rather poor demonstrations of what I consider… -
Re: What is bokeh?
Antonio, I posted my birds because I think they represent very pleasing bokeh - smooth, even lighted areas without sharp borders or background details that detract from the image. Andy calls it "buttery smooth" and I think that conveys the meaning very well. Unfortunately, many of the shots displayed in this thread,… -
Re: What is bokeh?
Ahh, Bokeh... First let's find that darned soapbox... :soapbox Let's approach this three ways... Bokeh the word... Bokeh as a word is Japanese. It translates roughly into "blur". It's pronounced "BOH-kay", and yes, the deprecated long "ay" sound is very hard for English speakers, that's why most people pronouce it like the…
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