Bokehlicious!!!

[rt101]

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@rt101: Thank you. That shot was taken with a 40-year old lens

mao bah? unsa nga lens if I may ask? murag daghan pa gyud ko knahanglan makat-unan kay you were able to do a great bookeh using a 40 year old lens...
I love bookeh, toy photography and of course street photography...maau unta mka palit nko karon nga month ug dslr oi...

[cmontoya]

@rt101: It's an Asahi Super Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens.

Please distinguish between bokeh and background blur. When I was starting out, I thought they're the same. Bokeh is the quality of OOF lights (direct or reflected) while background blur is the 'creaminess' of the blur. Both can exist in the same picture though as seen in aris's photo.

(OT) Here's a photo with not-so-creamy background blur w/ indistinguishable bokeh taken with above lens.



If you want to focus on portraiture, get a lens that will give you both great bokeh and creamy blur like the lens that was used to take aris's photo (a 70-200 2.8L IS I think) or a 50mm 1.4, 85mm 1.8, 100mm 2.0, or my dream lens the 135mm 2.0L.

[Motownkid]

Miniature diner

[vanix09]

newbie share:



C & C are welcome

[Nadskie]

my share for this thread

grabe..ani oie...mura man og model...

[cmontoya]

[dbgg1979]

love the bokeh and composition!

[neekul]

cute unta nangabang lang ang pulbos ni inday. hehe

[cmontoya]

@dbgg: Thank you. I'm a wanna-be candid photographer. I just don't know how to get more opportunities to do so. How does one get invited to be a candid photographer? I could go to any resto bar and shoot but that would be "stealing shots." Although technically there is no difference, candid photography is when people know there is a photographer around who is supposed to take photos of the event versus to "Who the f**k is that guy shooting at me?"

[klavel]

fairy dust


details here:
Flickr: More detail about 057/365 fairy dust