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Up in the grand redwoods on the 23rd. Had a lot of funny trying to capture a shot of a butterfly. Don't ask how many it took to get this one....lol
"When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly!”
~ Patrick Overton
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
haven't been feeling like showing my face this 365, but i figure i must begin at some point. dude, look at all those freckles. i wear 45 sunscreen, we have a huge history of skin cancer in our family.
umm, i almost never wear lipstick because my husband hates the taste, and because i often end up nibbling it off. it makes my face look brighter. my granny used to wear bright pink lipstick every day. maybe it just makes your mood better...
this is day 176 of a year in pictures, 2008
The picture seems pretty self-explanatory, but there's a full blown tutorial here.
I did it the lazy ass way because I can't even cut circles properly. I guess you could still have a bang if you didn't have a 50mm prime, but the smaller your aperture is, the more vignetting you get.
Jugando con las luces de la Plaza de Armas de Cajamarca.
© Kike Jara, 2013
Cajamarca, Perú.
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Bokeh, pronunciado /bóque/, es un concepto japonés (ぼけ boke) que significa desenfoque. En fotografía se utiliza este concepto para referirse a la calidad subjetiva de un objetivo por la estética de las zonas desenfocadas que produce en una fotografía.
Se trata por tanto no de la cantidad de desenfoque que un objetivo produce, sino de cómo es. Para la fotografía de determinados motivos, es interesante que el fondo quede desenfocado para evitar distracciones al observar la fotografía y resaltar de este modo el motivo. Mientras que unos objetivos muestran los objetos desenfocados como manchas circulares, otros lo hacen en otras formas, colores y contrastes. Estas formas como manchas suaves de color que toman los objetos desenfocados es lo que caracteriza el bokeh de un objetivo.
Se trata por tanto de una cualidad subjetiva. Las propiedades por las cuales un objetivo produce un bokeh agradable a la vista, no están todavía del todo claras. El número de láminas del diafragma por sí mismas no son un indicio fiable de si se obtendrá un bokeh en forma de una agradable neblina o un bokeh duro. Por lo general, los objetivos zoom tienden a producir un mal bokeh aunque no es siempre el caso. Un bokeh agradable es especialmente importante en objetivos muy luminosos, pues en sus mayores aperturas de diafragma pueden producir una profundidad de campo mínima. También es muy importante para objetivos de retratos, pues el fotógrafo de retratos prefiere profundidades de campo cortas para hacer desaparecer el fondo resaltando el motivo.
Los objetivos catadióptricos, debido a su construcción de espejos, producen un bokeh especial reproduciendo los objetos desenfocados en forma de anillos y no de manchas. Los objetos delgados y alargados del fondo aparecen frecuentemente como un doble contorno.
Fuente: Wikipedia.
I gave the slidey treatment to some lovely lavender in my back garden. I thank the nifty fifty for the bokeh! HSS :D
These grow back every year in my front garden every year - I like the way onion plants look so I let them go.
these little critters were eating our herbs. but i safely snipped off the parsley they (this was one of three) sat on and after taking a few pictures, i put this little guy and his friends in some ivy (not poison just ivy).
ps. i should really be doing my spanish homework :/
Night time shot of Bruce Munro's field of light at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Inspiring work, more info at www.brucemunro.co.uk/installations/field-of-light/
Definitely wish I had my 'pod with me for this one, although with beautiful changing colours and opportunity for creamy bokeh, critical sharpness isn't the be all... I do rather like my old and well used CZJ 135mm :)
The Micro Four-Thirds format can provide incredibly shallow depth of field with the right optical configuration.
Here I was using my Helios 44-3m lens, which is a full-frame lens, mounted via a focal reducer adapter. A focal reducer works a bit like a mild magnifying glass, reducing the image circle that the lens casts. In doing so, it also preserves many of the full-frame attributes of the lens, such as bokeh and shallow depth of field, while actually reducing (because it is shrinking) any optical imperfections that the lens might otherwise be prone to.
Finally, because a focal reducer is concentrating the image circle on a smaller area, this sort of adapter will also result in a practical increase in the intensity of light cast. So, in essence, an f/2 lens might actually transmit light more like an f/1.8 lens, thus gaining you a valuable stop of exposure in a low light situation.
This photo, while taken in daylight conditions demonstrates the shallow depth of field possible. The mirrorless format of Micro Four-Thirds and its short flange back distance makes it possible, with adapters, to mount almost any lens made in the last eighty years using an appropriate adapter.
Image taken on a trail near Whitehorse. It features a highbush cranberry.