Other Challenge +Show us your bokeh+

timb64 · 02-01-2016, 02:38 PM - **1 Like**

paulvzo · 02-01-2016, 08:17 PM

All I can say is that when I grew up in the world of photography, a "bokeh" was a flower arrangement.

The so-called Masters never heard of this, I suspect.

Go make some good images.

**clackers** · 02-01-2016, 11:36 PM

Originally posted by paulvzo

All I can say is that when I grew up in the world of photography, a "bokeh" was a flower arrangement.

It is a manufactured word, Paul, by a magazine editor IIRC.

Rhymes with 'poker', apparently.

normhead · 02-02-2016, 07:44 AM

You must be really old. Alfred Stieglitz and group of photographers championed a style of photography based on narrow DoF and out of focus back ground areas back in the thirties. He was of course countered by Ansel Adams and the the magazine he championed based on shooting at ƒ64. with large format cameras. Bokeh is just an update of Stieglitz's championed form, which was itself deprived from a school of thought in the world of painters that held that the subject should be painted with more detail than the back ground. Bokeh is a Japanese term, that if memory serves me well had to do with images with single point light sources in the back ground and really has little to do with this thread.

Technically bokeh images look like this.

Or this

We have so few actual bokeh images taken and posted the threads tend to get taken over by philistines such as myself.

hangman43 · 02-02-2016, 08:27 AM

**clackers** · 02-02-2016, 03:23 PM

Originally posted by normhead

Bokeh is a Japanese term, that if memory serves me well had to do with images with single point light sources in the back ground

Well, here's the story:

How Do You Pronounce "Bokeh"?

And I think that people understand it to refer to the quality of the blur and the nature of the transitions, as well as how single point sources are rendered (I don't know what the Japanese phrase for 'artsy circles' would be).

**wtlwdwgn** · 02-02-2016, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by clackers

(I don't know what the Japanese phrase for 'artsy circles' would be).

"Bokeh."

jcdoss · 02-02-2016, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by clackers

Well, here's the story:

How Do You Pronounce "Bokeh"?.

First, let me tell you how not to say it.

"Eat my shorts." "Eat" as in meat, "my" as in Michael, and "shorts" as in the opposite of longs. "Eat my shorts." That is in-correct.

Now for your real question, "artsy circles" is "bijutsu no maru."

I think.

**clackers** · 02-02-2016, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by jcdoss

First, let me tell you how not to say it.

"Eat my shorts." "Eat" as in meat, "my" as in Michael, and "shorts" as in the opposite of longs. "Eat my shorts." That is in-correct.

Now for your real question, "artsy circles" is "bijutsu no maru."

I think.

:mj:

If PF gets a chance to interview a Ricoh executive, you've got my vote.

If I try, it could be a low in Japanese-Western relations not seen since 1941. ☺

Jean Poitiers · 02-03-2016, 04:34 AM - **2 Likes**

This morning's submission for the "Daily in February" challenge ... it's going to be a very, very early flower season in Poitiers this year IMHO.

K-3 + FA 50/1.4 @ f/2 ... xpost from other bokeh thread

AldaCZ · 02-06-2016, 01:17 PM

Sigma 30 @1,6

normhead · 02-07-2016, 02:21 PM - **2 Likes**

More of the same...

normhead · 02-12-2016, 09:00 AM - **1 Like**

A few more ice images....

simon_199 · 02-13-2016, 10:04 AM - **2 Likes**

DFA 100 WR

hangman43 · 02-13-2016, 10:06 AM

02-02-2016, 07:44 AM	#4339
normhead Pentaxian Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Near Algonquin Park Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 40,451	You must be really old. Alfred Stieglitz and group of photographers championed a style of photography based on narrow DoF and out of focus back ground areas back in the thirties. He was of course countered by Ansel Adams and the the magazine he championed based on shooting at ƒ64. with large format cameras. Bokeh is just an update of Stieglitz's championed form, which was itself deprived from a school of thought in the world of painters that held that the subject should be painted with more detail than the back ground. Bokeh is a Japanese term, that if memory serves me well had to do with images with single point light sources in the back ground and really has little to do with this thread. Technically bokeh images look like this. Or this Or this We have so few actual bokeh images taken and posted the threads tend to get taken over by philistines such as myself.

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clackers Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Melbourne Photos: Albums Posts: 16,397	Originally posted by normhead Bokeh is a Japanese term, that if memory serves me well had to do with images with single point light sources in the back ground Well, here's the story: How Do You Pronounce "Bokeh"? And I think that people understand it to refer to the quality of the blur and the nature of the transitions, as well as how single point sources are rendered (I don't know what the Japanese phrase for 'artsy circles' would be).

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wtlwdwgn Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Billings, MT Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,838	Originally posted by clackers (I don't know what the Japanese phrase for 'artsy circles' would be). "Bokeh."

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clackers Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Melbourne Photos: Albums Posts: 16,397	Originally posted by jcdoss First, let me tell you how not to say it. "Eat my shorts." "Eat" as in meat, "my" as in Michael, and "shorts" as in the opposite of longs. "Eat my shorts." That is in-correct. Now for your real question, "artsy circles" is "bijutsu no maru." I think. :mj: If PF gets a chance to interview a Ricoh executive, you've got my vote. If I try, it could be a low in Japanese-Western relations not seen since 1941. ☺

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