Is Bokeh an overated property of an image?

Is Bokeh an overated property of an image?

  • Yes

    Votes: 191 51.8%

  • No

    Votes: 157 42.5%

  • I used to be decisive but I'm not so sure now

    Votes: 21 5.7%
  • Total voters
    369
  • Poll closed .
I personally think that flavor is an overrated property of food. Food is for survival only, and any sort of seasoning will just confuse your tongue.

Salt will kill you, and spices are just too expensive (and unnecessary when your only diet consists of tuna sandwiches).

Cooking is also overrated: why can't you just go and order at a restaurant?

Anybody who disagrees with those statements is bourgeois. :angel:
 
tlitody said:
well look at the bokeh thread. Its for you to decide whether swirly bokeh floats your boat or creamy bokeh does it for you.
Personally I think swirly bokeh often looks like boke (scottish word for vomit) but some times it looks good.
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No thanks, I have no interest in seeing a swirly or creamy boke.
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
I personally think that flavor is an overrated property of food. Food is for survival only, and any sort of seasoning will just confuse your tongue.

Salt will kill you, and spices are just too expensive (and unnecessary when your only diet consists of tuna sandwiches).

Cooking is also overrated: why can't you just go and order at a restaurant?

Anybody who disagrees with those statements is bourgeois. :angel:
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... and as we know sharpness is also a bourgeois concept, so best leave out the tuna and make everything blurry?
 
Sparrow said:
... and as we know sharpness is also a bourgeois concept, so best leave out the tuna and make everything blurry?
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Yes. And anything else that is not in English is overrated, because, I mean, come on, why have another language? Pretty pointless.

The ironic paradox is: owning a truth makes it disappear.
 
Rob-F said:
Is there a French word for Bokeh?
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Non. ;) But trust me, if it were part of French tradition, there would be different terms for different kinds of bokeh, with perfectly regulated wordings according to optical formula(e) and terroir of the glass.
 
skibeerr said:
the word is " Flou artistique" flou meaning diffuse.

Wim
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So is "flou artistique" good bokeh, or bad? Sounds pretty smooth, so maybe it's for good bokeh!

How about "Mal d'image" for bad bokeh? Or how do you say "background" en Francais?
 
Wow, can't believe how many people think "bokeh" is overrated. It may be over discussed and overused but it imbues a sense of depth to photos and allows you to isolate subjects. Critical for portraiture. Critical in many photos, really.

Sharpness, however, is overrated. Way overrated. Bokeh is not. And there is bad bokeh. It looks like what things look like if you cross your eyes - double image. Tessars, imo, in general have nice unobtrusive bokeh.
 
Rob-F said:
So is "flou artistique" good bokeh, or bad? Sounds pretty smooth, so maybe it's for good bokeh!

How about "Mal d'image" for bad bokeh? Or how do you say "background" en Francais?
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I had an early Toyata MR2. Unfortunately in France that phonetically sounds like Merde which is probably quite apt for your 'Mal d'image'. So you can say "That bokeh is MR2". :D
 
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Rob-F said:
So is "flou artistique" good bokeh, or bad? Sounds pretty smooth, so maybe it's for good bokeh!

How about "Mal d'image" for bad bokeh? Or how do you say "background" en Francais?
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Ha! Excellent. The more I learn French, the more I realize it's by far the most "romantic" of the Romance languages.

"Artistic blur" vs. "image sickness" (or as I would jokingly translate, "evil of image").

I've asked French speakers to translate "background", and, of course, "it depends". It's all about the context. And the pronunciation. :eek:
 
I don't want my out-of-focus areas to swirl, streak, jitter, or otherwise call attention to themselves; just fade unobtrusively from a sharp subject into a blur, please. Other than that, I really don't think about the whole bokeh thing too much.
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
Ha! Excellent. The more I learn French, the more I realize it's by far the most "romantic" of the Romance languages.

"Artistic blur" vs. "image sickness" (or as I would jokingly translate, "evil of image").

I've asked French speakers to translate "background", and, of course, "it depends". It's all about the context. And the pronunciation. :eek:
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Ask them to translate Giclée as in Giclée print :D
 
Bokeh is overrated...especially for rangefinder photography. There is no way to see what the lenses are doing outside of a reflex housing. Period lens reviews make no mention of bokeh(even its effects if not the word itself). Its all about the sharpness and lens speed.
 
NikonSP said:
Bokeh is overrated...especially for rangefinder photography. There is no way to see what the lenses are doing outside of a reflex housing. Period lens reviews make no mention of bokeh(even its effects if not the word itself). Its all about the sharpness and lens speed.
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... I would recommend to read a lens review of the one or other Japanes photomagazine about "no mention of bokeh" :D
 
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