Thankyou, Gregory.
Another Focus test; an uncoated Zeiss Sonnar 5cm F1.5 converted to Leica Mount. Lens was bought from an RFF member, modified, and is now half way across the world with another RFF member. So I need to test the focus, but would rather look at tree branches and tall grass than brick walls!
Another Focus test; an uncoated Zeiss Sonnar 5cm F1.5 converted to Leica Mount. Lens was bought from an RFF member, modified, and is now half way across the world with another RFF member. So I need to test the focus, but would rather look at tree branches and tall grass than brick walls!
Thankyou. That means a lot to me.
It's also a lot nicer than the typical version... good job. Perhaps I should have said mediorce bopttle and branches? 
This is my most-viewed photo on Flickr, marked as a favorite more than any other.
Canon 50/0.95 wide-open, on the Canon 7. It's a test shot, got the lens from Ebay and tried it out on my Canon body. The focus was spot-on. And flare, well that is the Sun in the right-hand corner. Most of my tree-branch shots are focus tests. But I like pretty colors and swirly lights.
patrickhh
GAS free since Dec. 2007
I'm a total bokeh perv. I just can't help it.
BTW. @Gregory. I love your Noctilux cat shot.
BTW. @Gregory. I love your Noctilux cat shot.
Gradskater
Well-known
wow, I took a VERY similar picture to yours, Brian. This was with a jupiter 8, wide open. I have gotten this look from the Russian lens, but I also have gotten very smooth bokeh as well, all depending on the light and structure of the background. I posted this in the 'ultimate bokeh' thread as well.
ulrikft
Established
I like my boke
ReneSpudvilas
Perrennial amateur.
I think if a lot of people are very interested in bokeh-heavy photos, bokeh characteristics, bokeh-friendly lenses...etc.. it means that a lot of people think it is a very pleasing thing! That can surely not be a bad thing. As a photographer, I want people to find my photos pleasing/engaging, and if that means a blurred background, so be it.
I am also a big fan of fisheye lenses....a lot of people half-dismiss them as novelty/gimmicks too, but I grew up in the 80s/90s, and was very heavily influenced by skateboarding/hip hop and other fisheye cultures! I guess that means I just cannot help loving fisheye lenses.... I do not think that will ever change.
I do not see them as novelties, I just see them as essential tools.
Blasting out backgrounds with my first 1.4/50 lens was such a joy, something that made me really find photography fun..... maybe it was a novelty back then, but it is something that has always fascinated me since. I am not sure that will ever change either!
I am also a big fan of fisheye lenses....a lot of people half-dismiss them as novelty/gimmicks too, but I grew up in the 80s/90s, and was very heavily influenced by skateboarding/hip hop and other fisheye cultures! I guess that means I just cannot help loving fisheye lenses.... I do not think that will ever change.
I do not see them as novelties, I just see them as essential tools.
Blasting out backgrounds with my first 1.4/50 lens was such a joy, something that made me really find photography fun..... maybe it was a novelty back then, but it is something that has always fascinated me since. I am not sure that will ever change either!
NickTrop
Veteran
To categorized "bokeh" or use of selective focus and disparage its use by photographers as "amateur bling" is patently absurd, ridiculous, and an observations devoid of any merit whatsoever. You're entitled to your opinion, however, even if it's dumb. - and don't take offense, as someone who has made his share of dumb statements. We all do.
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Gumby
Veteran
Please do not include me in "we" when you write "we all do". I don't think I have ever written anything that 'patently absurd, ridiculous, and an observations devoid of any merit whatsoever'.
Gumby
Veteran
Ooops. forgot something:
Ade-oh
Well-known
I love this thread: from a comedy point of view, it's the gift that keeps on giving
Jack Conrad
Well-known
Bokeh is the scourge of all good photography.
Real photographers must all band together to destroy bokeh wherever it's found. The world must be purged of it or else it will sicken an entire century of great photography.
Seriously though... a little Olympus digital P@S is wicked sharp. Sharp enough to cut bologna.
But after a while, a man wants more than bologna.
Smear some bokeh on that bologna and you got a sandwich worth eating.
Real photographers must all band together to destroy bokeh wherever it's found. The world must be purged of it or else it will sicken an entire century of great photography.
Seriously though... a little Olympus digital P@S is wicked sharp. Sharp enough to cut bologna.
But after a while, a man wants more than bologna.
Smear some bokeh on that bologna and you got a sandwich worth eating.
ReneSpudvilas
Perrennial amateur.
In Japan, if a photo has a big wash of bokeh, we say; '' bokeh bokeh''.... double the fuzz....! It also describes someone who is being a bit senile, or forgetful... 'man, you are boketeru! ''
ReneSpudvilas
Perrennial amateur.
ULRIKFT... those shots are fantastic.... what lens were you using? Something VERY fast, by the look of it... and how were you staying wide open in snowy daylight? M8 or hexar?
maddoc
... likes film again.
Funny, not one of my Japanese friends who is interested into photography ever mentioned that word, "boke(h)" ...
ampguy
Veteran
is this bokeh? FTW!
mediumformatpho
Member
My problem is 98% of the people using the word "bokeh" have no idea what they're looking at and what is actually good. At this time it is a fetish that I hope goes away -- at use of the term...
ReneSpudvilas
Perrennial amateur.
Maddoc, really? It is the only word I hear to describe blurred areas... boke, boke boke, and boketeiru, and bura bura.... actually bura bura is usually negative, like when everyones faces are smeared across the negative...
Mediumformatpho.... what are you talking about?!
Mediumformatpho.... what are you talking about?!
