Article about Bokeh on portraits

Hello to all,

 

I'd like to share

with you the most

recent upload on my

website, the article

about bokeh on

portraits.

 

 

http://www.rbfotografia.com.br/bokeh_en_1.htm

 

I hope you enjoy it.

Comments are always

welcome.

 

Romulo Lubachesky<div></div>

Oddly if you shoot "portraits" with a suitable dark background, there isn't any "bokeh" to worry about.

If by the term "Bokeh" you mean out of focus highlights,I find them very distracting in this shot.

@Steve: Like I said on the article, there are two things that control the Bokeh, the background and the lens.

 

@Ben: Bokeh, as it was referred in the article, is about the defocused area on the photo. If it is shiny and bright with luminous dots the bokeh will be like the one in the photo, therefore, more distracting.

 

 

 

The photo above is only to illustrate the article. It is used to demonstrate the cat's eye effect.

 

Thanks for your comments.

If you don't do an exact comparison, there's no conclusions that can be drawn.

Romulo, I know that Bokeh is the current "buzz word" for it.

Good article. Text well composed and all said simply and in nutshell. One new aspect to bokeh is artificial bokeh

done with Photoshop. You can at least apply Gaussian blur and there is even a lense blur from CS2 onwards.

Although artificial bokeh is said to be much "uglier" than real old fashion bokeh, it still does its job in most

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The whole bokeh thing seems to be a bit of an opinion thing. Recently one photo hit my eye very favorably. It is

<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/7029578">this one</a> by Andrei Popescu and it is shot with

Rokkor 58/1.4 set prbably at f/2.8. In a way it looks very rough but it certainly looks good in my eyes.

<I>"Romulo, I know that Bokeh is the current "buzz word" for it."</I>

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I don't think the word "current" means what you think it does.