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Photographing your Bokeh

scott kirkpatrick

Well-known member
Elaborate on that "Three planes of focus, no double-lines" then please...
OK. The image in the front, the rose blossom and its branch, have nice definition and microcontrast. The layer of foliage just behind is sort of charcoal-sketched, without the "ni-sen" double lines that you often see in more strongly lit but OOF tangles of branches, bright on one side, dark on the other. And the building and sky behind are just a few bands of color. I tilted the building so that it just makes a horizon line.

Sometime the double lines can be nice, but more often they are just distracting.

scott
 

kds315

Active member
OK. The image in the front, the rose blossom and its branch, have nice definition and microcontrast. The layer of foliage just behind is sort of charcoal-sketched, without the "ni-sen" double lines that you often see in more strongly lit but OOF tangles of branches, bright on one side, dark on the other. And the building and sky behind are just a few bands of color. I tilted the building so that it just makes a horizon line.

Sometime the double lines can be nice, but more often they are just distracting.

scott
Thanks Scott, now even I get it... ;-)

Personally, I would have liked a bit more BG isolation, as the green around that wonderful rose distract me a bit.
 
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