August Monthly Photography Challenge - Bokeh - Discussion
Discussion
Skaffen said:
mattdaniels said:
I know it's subjective but to me a lot of these shots aren't bokeh they are just shallow depth of field. With bokeh you are trying to get smooth soft discs of bright light in the out of focus parts of the image.
I concur with what Dogsey said - what you're talking about is bokeh of highlights and I believe bokeh is not just about out of focus highlights. I think that's a common association, as the bokeh of a lens is most clearly demonstrated with how the highlights appear (and out of focus highlights are very distinctive so have an obvious contribution to an image as a whole), but bokeh isn't restricted to that.
My interpretation of the challenge was that the image should include out of focus elements, and those elements should be an important part of the image as a whole, and the feel of them is key.
HoHoHo said:
There is a depth of field, and there's bokeh 
. I like the feel of the out of focus elements in that shot.mattdaniels said:
We're kind of saying the same thing. There's a good artical on the difference between Bokeh and just DoF here: http://www.advancedphotography.net/bokeh-dof-diffe...
Well my reading of what you said was you were more specifically talking about clearly defined circular elements. That's an interesting article - I like this from the conclusion:advancedphotography said:
While depth of field is the technique of presenting the area of sharp focus, bokeh is the craft of artistically presenting the out-of-focus area of an image. Bokeh is more of a qualitative aspect of the photograph.
Here's a couple of my shots where they have a shallow depth of field, and of course out of focus elements (and thus bokeh), but where I don't feel the out of focus elements are that important to the final image - they're just kinda there, if that makes sense. I feel they're primarily about what is in focus, very little to do with the bokeh even tho' there is bokeh.
Reggie
Toxicated
Tricky subject really, and hard to be sure what I feel about it and express it.
Reggie
Toxicated
Tricky subject really, and hard to be sure what I feel about it and express it
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Skaffen said:
I concur with what Dogsey said - what you're talking about is bokeh of highlights and I believe bokeh is not just about out of focus highlights. I think that's a common association, as the bokeh of a lens is most clearly demonstrated with how the highlights appear (and out of focus highlights are very distinctive so have an obvious contribution to an image as a whole), but bokeh isn't restricted to that.
My interpretation of the challenge was that the image should include out of focus elements, and those elements should be an important part of the image as a whole, and the feel of them is key.
Last chance saloon for entries everyone, this closes at Midnight tonight!
HoHoHo said:
Yeah. The out of focus lights make the picture, without them it would just be a nice bottle of wine, the bokeh element gives the picture an interesting feel. Shame it's not taken this month, could have been a contenter. londonagent said:
HoHoHo said:
Yeah. The out of focus lights make the picture, without them it would just be a nice bottle of wine, the bokeh element gives the picture an interesting feel. Shame it's not taken this month, could have been a contenter. I'm in a totally different universe and time zone to you lot
HoHoHo said:
Lovely bokeh just poor composition 
mattdaniels said:
HoHoHo said:
Lovely bokeh just poor composition 
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