From wikiMy last post... I have some technical certifications, a bachelor degree in photojournalism, and 3/4 of a Master's in Art... and never was the word Bokeh uttered till 2007 or so.
Well he was right on both counts.I know a guy who fancies himself a bird photographer. He's not bad, actually.
He showed me some photos of a fairly rare bird, in these parts. (Trumpeter swan. Itinerants that don't usually nest here.)
It was a pretty good photo.
But I took one look at it and asked him if he used a catadioptric lens.
"A cata-what-ic?"
"Catadioptric... Like a miniature telescope. With a mirror inside"
"How did you know?"
I told him that those mirror lenses are known to produce ring-shaped halos around highlights.
"Oh, you mean bokeh," he said, "I thought that was cool."
The guy knows his birds, though. Better than anybody else I know.
She spoke about wanting to get Photoshop (complained it's too expensive) but want's to do "tilt shift" in photoshop....
......ANd she says she doesn't like JAZZ either... I listen to it all day.....
........ at least my 17 year-old and I have 1950-1970's Jazz, Steely Dan, Rush, and Yes in common.
Well he was right on both counts.
That IS what Bokeh is.
And HE thought it was cool.
She spoke about wanting to get Photoshop (complained it's too expensive) but want's to do "tilt shift" in photoshop....
It's a loan word from Japanese.
Besides, this is America. We should speak 'Merikan, not Jap'neez.
She spoke about wanting to get Photoshop (complained it's too expensive) but want's to do "tilt shift" in photoshop....
......ANd she says she doesn't like JAZZ either... I listen to it all day.....
........ at least my 17 year-old and I have 1950-1970's Jazz, Steely Dan, Rush, and Yes in common.
Tell her to install GIMP, and when she wants to use masks, to google for "gimp masks" - If nothing else, it should open her eyes to latex and other deviants
P.S. Googling "gimp masks" is not safe at work.
I stopped and thought but my camera doesn't delete frames like yours must. I am afraid I don't know much about photoshop. Thankfully used Cat lenses are quite cheap, probably due to the derision of experts.:confused:Well, bokeh (or blurred highlights) can be cool if you plan it into the composition, hopefully at the time of taking the photo but certainly when making the final print. That assumes that the photographer has some idea how to create bokeh when he wants it. That does not mean that you open your aperture all the way then hope that every highlight beyond field of focus turns into sea of donuts.
If you want to have a sea of donuts, MAKE a sea of donuts. Don't just shoot fifty frames them delete forty nine, hoping to get the one shot with the most donutty goodness.
Stop and think for a second and you might realize that, if you try, you might be able to make an angelic halo appear over somebody's head. Now, THAT would be cool bokeh! You didn't even have to use Photoshop to do it.
Maybe, someday, it might be fun to tinker but I'm not about to spend a boatload of money on a lens just for making donuts.
P.S. The guy's picture was not a sea of donuts. Just one or two annular highlights in the background. I just said that as an example.
I think the fetish for shallow DoF is driven by frustration over slow zooms on SLR kits and small digi sensors.
I've never heard anyone attempt to say 'bokeh' so I wonder if it is correct to say it like 'bouquet' or 'bok-ay'
I thought the original post was really funny. I take it that was how it was intended ?
Unbelivers- the best bohkens can only be achieved by becoming one with the zero, with the asymptotic lens, the F/0. Believe.
Does the intern have a drug habit, or brain damage, or something?
Worse- the combination of youthful ignorance, inexperience, and absolute certainty.
A common affliction, followed some years later with a tendency to roll the eyes and smile wryly when reminded of it.
My last post... I have some technical certifications, a bachelor degree in photojournalism, and 3/4 of a Master's in Art... and never was the word Bokeh uttered till 2007 or so.
Yeah, that too.(Rolls eyes and grimaces)
Good point. Actually, I was kidding about making the 50/1.2 Nikons and others, and selling them stripped down. Kind of like a nokton barrel lens.
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