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Re: [OM] More managed bokeh

Subject: Re: [OM] More managed bokeh
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:33:53 +0000
The overall effect is pleasing to me, Joel.  I must admit that I can't  
see what is distracting Chuck, though.  I must be losing my visual  
acuity ...

Chris

On 6 Jan 2009, at 19:22, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> The far background looks very good.  At the intermediate distance to  
> the
> right of the center stem I'm bothered by two things.  One is the halo
> look around the perimeter of the green and brown edged leaf and the
> second is a "hair" running between the leaves and across the stem of  
> the
> flower.  I think either one alone might be OK but the pair of them in
> close proximity draws my attention there and won't let it go.  The
> "hair", of course, has nothing to do with bokeh and I don't know if  
> the
> halo around the leaf is a bokeh effect or something else.  Anyhow  
> those
> two things prevent my full enjoyment of the image.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Here is a photo I took several weeks ago.
>>
>> http://flickr.com/photos/99378213@N00/3174633142/
>>
>> I shot these flowers in several different ways, changing what was in
>> the background.  In this case I included a railing to see whether it
>> would be distracting and/or jittery or whether it would provide a
>> little bit of contrast in the background that might provide more
>> interest to the flowers, a sense of scale, and that sort of thing.
>> While I don't get a "bokeh rush" from the image, I don't find it
>> displeasing.  But is it bokeh?  Does it matter?
>>
>> Joel W.
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