August Photography Competition - "Bokeh"

[craig1912]

Shaggy Ink cap

[sgtBerbatov]

Doofus said:

DibblyDobbler said:

You should enter as these are very much up with the standard of the thread, most of us are just amateurs (with the odd exception!) and not real photographers as such.

Both qualify as examples of bokeh - the second in particular IMHO

Thank you.

Reinforcing what DibblyDobbler said, there is no requirement for you to be a photographer. I wouldn't even call myself a photographer, just a hipster who likes the misery of taking photos on film.

So which photo are you going to enter?

[cherie171]

DSC_5321 by Cherie P, on Flickr

[thebraketester]

[MonzaEvo]

Macaque in front of Murugan Statue - Batu Caves by monzaevo, on Flickr

[driver67]

Three Gull Bokeh on the River Tay Bridge, Dunkeld.



DSC_0043 by Dougie Lindsay, on Flickr

Cheers,

Dougie.

Edited by driver67 on Thursday 15th August 21:00

[Doofus]

sgtBerbatov said:

Doofus said:

DibblyDobbler said:

You should enter as these are very much up with the standard of the thread, most of us are just amateurs (with the odd exception!) and not real photographers as such.

Both qualify as examples of bokeh - the second in particular IMHO

Thank you.

Reinforcing what DibblyDobbler said, there is no requirement for you to be a photographer. I wouldn't even call myself a photographer, just a hipster who likes the misery of taking photos on film.

So which photo are you going to enter?

Well, I like the watch one, but it's the foreground that's blurred, so I'm not convinced it's bokeh, and the grasshopper isn't good enough to troubpe the decent entries.

[Nigel_O]

Without really knowing it, I find that I've taken very few shots with any kind of bokeh - makes me want to get out there and experiment

an OK one from my Flickr albums....

Sergei? by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr

[GJB]

When sitting in my garden it's always nice to watch the Bees working on the Lavender. Hard subject matter as they don't stay still for long. Tend to use my 100-400 mm. Canon lens. This is partly due to laziness on my part but hey, ho.

[mintybiscuit]

[DibblyDobbler]

thebraketester said:

Bamburgh?

[Fastchas]

Why is this upside down??

Edited by Fastchas on Friday 16th August 17:10

[DibblyDobbler]

Fastchas said:

Why is this upside down??

Not sure but I think the top and bottom are the wrong way round

[Doofus]

Fastchas said:

Why is this upside down??

It's not. Look at the Thumbsnap logo

[Fastchas]

It was upside down the first attempt so I went and rotated it 180° and tried again. Still upside down.

[Doofus]

Fastchas said:

It was upside down the first attempt so I went and rotated it 180° and tried again. Still upside down.

I've had the same thing. I identified that PH is fine with portrait orientation (this is on Android), but has no clue when it comes to landscape. You can spin that fker all day long, and if you eventually get it right, it's just luck.

[Nerdherder]

Shot today. Not a winner by any stretch of the imagination though.

[C&C]

Thanks for an interesting subject, and some great entries so far.

I really enjoy this competition as it gives a good reason to go out and try to take some qualifying photos each month.

Here's one from a trip to the zoo just over a week ago - I found myself constantly thinking about trying to get photos with decent bokeh, so it added a lot of interest to the day. There are a few others in the album here, but I liked this one for the contrasting colour of the lizard as it clung to the grey rock face with the green foliage in the foreground.

3O2A9681 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

[curlyks2]

Entire amateur too, and not going to be a winning entry:

[Whoozit]

Bokeh is not my sort of thing as I mostly do landscapes. But I couldn't resist a springtime bluebell...