Photo Competition #9 - Bokeh

[talan]

Welcome to 2010 everyone!

Let's kick off the photo competitions with a theme we all love.

The theme is BOKEH

Competition guidelines:

Entries will close midnight Friday 29th of January (or thereabouts) and a poll will run for 1 week to decide on the winner.
Email an attached image to photographersonlinenz@gmail.com with your forum username. Please send an attached jpeg file. Do not send a link to a hosted image.
Photos submitted should be no larger than 800 x 800 and should be free of any watermarks.
These competitions are really for testing your creativity and interpretation of the theme so please go and take a NEW photo.
I'm confident we'll see some pretty spectacular entries so dust your off fast lenses and play!

Cheers,
Talan

[talan]

For those who need inspiration, here are some Flickr groups that may help with your ideas.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bokehwhores/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bokehwednesday/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bokehpalooza/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/24-7-bokeh-life/

[magello]

^^ Thanks Talan, i had no idea what it was till i google'd it and looked at your links, i think i know what to aim for now.

[thirdkid]

and magello, Make sure your aperture is wide and best with the 50mm

[Deviant]

this is where i suffer due to kit lenses :P

[thirdkid]

Same here..Might have to borrow magellos hehe

[smurff]

i found it was possible with my kit lens. long lens at fullish zoom i think it was.
was not much a with a 1.8 or lens like that, but was still noticeable

-smurff

---------- Post added at 12:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 AM ----------

just tried with my 18 - 200 kit lens

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4289734465_5c434f8358.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurff900/4289734465/)

Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Exposure: 0.2 sec (1/5)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 90 mm

creamy background, just need a better subject and background lol
this was the can of drink i just finished, and the wall of the workshop, so nothing pretty :)

-smurff

[nathanbarlow]

if you dont have a wide aperture lens, I think you can still achieve this, just need subject to be closer to camera, and have a HUGE distance between subject and background. Not sure if it is technically bokeh, but similar result.

[smurff]

this a pic i did with my 50mm at f1.8, compared to the one above with the kit lens, only difference in the back ground is how the 1.8 shapes the light reflections. but as i had no light reflections in the top one, there really quite the same effect.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/4127631729_975ba71b7f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurff900/4127631729/)

In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

so really, its any out of focus that looks pleasing to the eye. its just easier to achieve with a fstop of 1.8 - 1.2 as you dof is shorter, so there is more out of focus dof. . . this is what i can gather from reading around.

-smurff

[fokker]

You can do it with any lens, though the bigger the aperture the easier it is.

-Use longest focal length possible
-High ratio of subject-background:camera-subject distance (i.e. be close to the subject with the background far away)

[talan]

I have received 4 entries so far. Keep them coming!

[smurff]

:) did you get mine?

-smurff

[phallex]

and mine?!

[talan]

:) did you get mine?

-smurff
Yes.

and mine?!
Nope.

[robo git]

Entry send :D

Can almost guarantee it won't be to everyone's taste, but oh well ^_^'

[Haim]

i love Bokeh!! YAY

[buddythunder]

I've gone with f/5.0, but then again I was at minimum focus with a macro lens!

[talan]

7 entries. keep them coming!

[Jocelen]

Must be at least 8 now...

[Doctor Blade]

Entry sent :cool:

[talan]

Must be at least 8 now...
Received.
Entry sent :cool:
Received.

C'mon lurkers! Not long to go!

[Gerrit]

http://woops

Don't know if the shot must have been taken in the period of the competition. If it can't be older than that... please delete this entry.

*Mod - removed for anonymity* :)

[smurff]

ur spose to email ur entry so its anonymous :P details in first post :)

-smurff

[talan]

ur spose to email ur entry so its anonymous :P details in first post :)

^^^ hehehe what he said. I've removed it and Gerrit is welcome to submit the one he had above or a new one :)

[thirdkid]

Hope you got mine

[talan]

Hope you got mine
Yes sir.

[robo git]

So between 10 and 12 entries thus far?