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Bokeh (was: [SI] Weapons are available for viewing)
Pulling this out of the weapons thread to give that thread a chance
to get back on topic. (There's a topic!? Who knew?) Ignoring for the moment the pretentiousness or lack thereof of the term bokeh, the validity of selective focus, whether "creamy" is an adjective relevant to the subject, my lack of expertise in the matter, and any number of other distractions: From what I've been able to assimilate, the term refers not so much to the level of out-of-focusness so much as how the unfocussed areas are perceived. The latter seems to depend on things like the number and shape of iris blades and whether the glass tends to produce ring effects on unfocussed edges, as well as personal taste. There's a substantial contingent that seems to find more blades, and curved blades, and lack of ring effects, to produce more pleasurable images. Of course, since it's a perception thing, there's no good, bad, better or "winning". /me crawls back under his bridge. De |
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Bokeh (was: [SI] Weapons are available for viewing)
Dennis Boone wrote:
Pulling this out of the weapons thread to give that thread a chance to get back on topic. (There's a topic!? Who knew?) Ignoring for the moment the pretentiousness or lack thereof of the term bokeh, the validity of selective focus, whether "creamy" is an adjective relevant to the subject, my lack of expertise in the matter, and any number of other distractions: From what I've been able to assimilate, the term refers not so much to the level of out-of-focusness so much as how the unfocussed areas are perceived. The latter seems to depend on things like the number and shape of iris blades and whether the glass tends to produce ring effects on unfocussed edges, as well as personal taste. There's a substantial contingent that seems to find more blades, and curved blades, and lack of ring effects, to produce more pleasurable images. Of course, since it's a perception thing, there's no good, bad, better or "winning". Agreed, for example: http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...movies/pg5pc24 /me crawls back under his bridge. De |
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