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Descriptive terms for bokeh

The only time I use that word is when I'm referring to someone as "not all there", in Japanese.

So you are saying that that person is unable to focus, right?
 
Louis Armstrong always said there were 2 kinds of music, good music and bad music. Bokeh is like that, I guess Leica smooth would describe bokeh.
 
rich
excellent
perfection
deep, outlined
intense
fine
fruity
spicy
Oops! Sorry, I was reading a wine bottle.

Those all actually came from a single wine bottle label.
 
Bokeh = Moth splattered on a windshield - same definition as what a tattoo on a 17 yrs old gal will look like when she's 30 years older and 60 lbs heavier.

Otherwise - "good" bokeh is calming and non-distracting, while "bad" out-of-focus rendering is busy and distracting.
 

A humming bird above the breast of a 17 year old looks like a condor on an older woman.
 
Humming birds are attracted to nectar, condors to road kill. I'll probably be around a condor refuge later this month. They require an awful lot of protected space free from hunting. The number one cause of condor death and infertility is ingestion of lead shot. Reminds me of a PBS documentary last nite about an English manor house and how they serve up all the pheasants shot the same day. Maybe that's what really happened to the Frumpish minds of Brit Lord's n' Ladies, and not just inbreeding - a hefty does of ingested lead pellets. We raised pheasants among other poultry and fowl when I was young, but can't remember ever eating one because the bobcats and coyotes got to them all first.
 
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"All that blurry crap in the background"...
Bokeh is a characteristic of "All that blurry crap in the background"
you either have
  • "All that smooth blurry crap in the background"
  • "All that bad, disruptive blurry crap in the background"
 
This is in the running for today's "most off the topic post in Photrio today" award.
 
Marketing.
 
Bokeh is a characteristic of "All that blurry crap in the background"
you either have
  • "All that smooth blurry crap in the background"
  • "All that bad, disruptive blurry crap in the background"

  • "Donuts from mirror lenses"
 
So what's my prize? An amazing soft-focus uber-bokeh cult lens that retails for $7,000 and was made from a recycled Coca Cola bottle?
 
Thanks for volunteering to publish those, Matt. An Amphoto paperback, no doubt?