The ultimate Bokeh thread; pics please

[Pete B]

Hasselblad 500c/m, Zeiss 80mm f2.8

Pete

 

[kutitta]

Leica CL & Summicron-C 40mm f/2 & Ilford XP2 Super 400 - shot wide open at the underground tunnel of Central Station, Sydney, Australia

 

[Darshan]

great expression in this one..nicely done

Here is one, for what I instantly love that Nikkor-S.C 85/1.5 Sonnar:

…smooth, dissolving background, but with those Sonnar balls of glow!

 

[menos]

great expression in this one..nicely done

Thanks Dan - the expression was entirely created by 38ºC and 90% humidity that day 😀

 

[Adam J.]

NEX 5N + Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4

 

[silent1]

And here's an example of Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f1.4 out-of-focus points of light. Love them.

 

[John E Earley]

Nikon D90, 85mm f1.8D

 

[John E Earley]

Nikon D90, 85mm f1.8D

In the background, my brother-in-law taking the photos I wish I had taken 😉

 

[jmanivelle]

Canon 50 1.2 LTM on M8


Dragonfly / Libélula

 

[jcrutcher]

M9-P with an old 135mm Tele-Elmar wide open at F4. Converted to B&W in LR4

 

[Taipei-metro]

IMG_1440 Dajia, Taiwan 大甲 by tpe-m★中途下車
Canon 450d, 70-300 at 224mm/ 358.4mm eqv

 

[ThomasM]

Elmarit-R 2.8/60





by InvertedImage, on Flickr

 

[Michel.Roth]

Summicron M 50mm collapsible:

 

[John E Earley]

Nikon D90 85mm f1.8D

 

[Tveljus]

Say hello to the Voigtländer Prominent Nokton 50mm f1.5 (also known as the "old Nokton")!

Close to medium focusing distance, wide open:

Close distance, wide open (beware!!!):

Foreground bokeh (smeary and sometimes glowy):

And finally with enough distance for a full body portrait:

The bokeh is really wild and sometimes unpredictable, but I love this lens for it's sharpness through all apertures.
All shots are taken with a Bessa R2S Nikon Historical Society edition.

 

[menos]

Say hello to the Voigtländer Prominent Nokton 50mm f1.5 (also known as the "old Nokton")!
The bokeh is really wild and sometimes unpredictable, but I love this lens for it's sharpness through all apertures.
All shots are taken with a Bessa R2S Nikon Historical Society edition.

I really like that look of this lens!

 

[philosomatographer]

The most extraordinarily good lens I have ever used, the Zuiko Digital 35-100 f/2.0:

A very unlikely lens for producing any sort of bokeh, the Zuiko Digital 7-14mm f/4.0:

 

[Cron]

m4/3 bokeh - Olympus OM-D with Zuiko 1,8/45 wide open

 

[drew.saunders]

Pretty much nothing but bokeh here:



I could claim it was done intentionally to comment on the current state of affairs or some other artistic BS, or I could 'fess up to having botched the focus. There is a wee bit of the leaf in focus.

c. 1970 Leica 90/2 Summicron, M6TTL 0.58x with a 1.25 magnifier, Ektar 100, wide open at f/2. Maybe the breeze blew the flower out of focus! Yeah, I'll blame the wind!

 

[kutitta]

Leica CL
Summicron-C 40/2
Ilford XP2 Super 400

Shot wide open