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Saturday, November 07, 2020
Seen on YouTube: Bokeh is overrated
I really like what this guy says and did here. It is making me stop and think a bit more deeply about out of focus rendition and its importance (or lack there-of) in photography.
Some interesting observations on the perception and interpretation by an untutored audience of photographs with varying degrees of separation of the subject from the background. However, the Youtube film maker's muddling up of bokeh, the manner in which a lens renders out-of-focus points of light with depth-of-field is very annoying. If you're going to post an information or 'teaching' video then the author has a responsibility to GET IT RIGHT or fake news gets spread into the community and perpetrated for evermore. This guy has been watching too much Trump on twitter!
NigelS - the thing I took from the video is that non-photographers looking at images prefer the backgrounds to be more or less in focus.
Of course, the details of "bokeh" are largely unknown by folks who think all you need is a "fast" lens where everything instantly goes to mush after the point of focus.
The gradual transition from "sharp" to "out of focus" is where a good lens designer can easily be spotted from someone with ray tracer software and little care for such details.
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Some interesting observations on the perception and interpretation by an untutored audience of photographs with varying degrees of separation of the subject from the background. However, the Youtube film maker's muddling up of bokeh, the manner in which a lens renders out-of-focus points of light with depth-of-field is very annoying. If you're going to post an information or 'teaching' video then the author has a responsibility to GET IT RIGHT or fake news gets spread into the community and perpetrated for evermore. This guy has been watching too much Trump on twitter!
NigelS - the thing I took from the video is that non-photographers looking at images prefer the backgrounds to be more or less in focus.
Of course, the details of "bokeh" are largely unknown by folks who think all you need is a "fast" lens where everything instantly goes to mush after the point of focus.
The gradual transition from "sharp" to "out of focus" is where a good lens designer can easily be spotted from someone with ray tracer software and little care for such details.
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