Descriptive terms for bokeh

[Andrew O'Neill]

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

 

[Sirius Glass]

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?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

 

[Sirius Glass]

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?

Are you saying that people who focus on bokeh are not focused and "not all there"?

 

[(f)leef]

Schmutz?

That's about right, but does it end in a z or a s?

 

[Arthurwg]

That's about right, but does it end in a z or a s?

That depends on the Shtetl.

 

[alanrockwood]

That's about right, but does it end in a z or a s?

Auf Deutsch, it ends with a z. In Yiddish, I don't know.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Auf Deutsch, it ends with a z. In Yiddish, I don't know.

'z'

 

[gone]

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.

 

[reddesert]

rich
excellent
perfection
deep, outlined
intense
fine
fruity
spicy
Oops! Sorry, I was reading a wine bottle.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Those all actually came from a single wine bottle label.

 

[DREW WILEY]

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.

 

[Sirius Glass]

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.

 

[DREW WILEY]

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.

 

[tomkatf]

"All that blurry crap in the background"...

 

[wiltw]

"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"

 

[MattKing]

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.

This is in the running for today's "most off the topic post in Photrio today" award.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

Marketing.

 

[Sirius Glass]

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"

 

[Sirius Glass]

This is in the running for today's "most off the topic post in Photrio today" award.

 

[DREW WILEY]

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?

 

[MattKing]

So what's my prize?

The collected posts of Drew Wiley, of course.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The collected posts of Drew Wiley, of course.

Bound? If you want a binder use boiled rice or Kaopectate.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Thanks for volunteering to publish those, Matt. An Amphoto paperback, no doubt?

 

[MattKing]

Thanks for volunteering to publish those, Matt. An Amphoto paperback, no doubt?

Just an e-Book, Drew.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

Just an e-Book, Drew.

Darn it! No chance of a signed copy then?