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Show us your "Focus is Overrated" shots - No Bokeh

Ok, just to keep things fresh and exciting around here, I'm proposing a new photo thread for purposeful OOF images, no Bokeh though. These images should be more about composition, space, color, mood, etc. Anyone else up?

Could be a nice exercise or maybe a recipe for photo disaster - who knows...

List camera and lens please.

I'm setting the bar low with this first one.

GF1/Contax 85mm 1.4

 

m3photo

New member
Shopper

Purposeful out-of-focus? That's me! Can't take "proper" images anymore ...:D

G1+Kit Lens at 45mm - 1/60s f/5.6 ISO160

 

helenhill

Senior Member
Moi / collapsible cron, M4.neopan1600
Soft . slight OOF. No Bokeh so to speak
please click on to make BIGGER
 
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helenhill

Senior Member
M6ttl,1966 50mm lux,neopan1600...
Soft, slight OOF,no Bokeh so to speak

click on to make BIGGER
 
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woodmancy

Subscriber Member
Ok, just to keep things fresh and exciting around here, I'm proposing a new photo thread for purposeful OOF images, no Bokeh though. These images should be more about composition, space, color, mood, etc. Anyone else up?

Could be a nice exercise or maybe a recipe for photo disaster - who knows...

List camera and lens please.

I'm setting the bar low with this first one.

GF1/Contax 85mm 1.4

Sounds like you haven't been to the Bokeh thread for quite a while :)

Keith
 

m3photo

New member
Re: Bokeh Rule

Which bokeh rule did he break?
As I understand it, he implied that the images posted on this thread be out-of-focus but not blatantly obvious in the bokeh department. I thought I could get away with it by complying with the other requirements such as being purposefully out-of-focus with the subject in mind, but it seems I didn't make the grade, snif! :cry: :D
 

woodmancy

Subscriber Member
Re: Bokeh Rule

As I understand it, he implied that the images posted on this thread be out-of-focus but not blatantly obvious in the bokeh department. I thought I could get away with it by complying with the other requirements such as being purposefully out-of-focus with the subject in mind, but it seems I didn't make the grade, snif! :cry: :D
He said you broke a rule - I couldn't understand that. But thanks for the explanation

Keith
 
Guys! That was meant to be a very lighthearted scalding :)

The general idea here is OOF but no Bokeh (out of focus points of light - generally blurred highlights). Sometimes Bokeh is used as a catch all for anything out of focus but I'm referring here to the second part of its definition.

From wiki: In photography, bokeh is the blur,[1][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,[3][4][5] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."[6]
 

ggibson

Well-known member
Taken yesterday while I was out with my Cosmicar 25mm c-mount lens. I need to modify the mount a bit because at the moment, it only focuses about 5 feet away max. Didn't want to overcrowd this guy playing on the street while I was taking his picture...

 
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