Posted on March 11, 2021
A bit of bokeh and a judicious angle makes this orange poppy appear to be floating in mid-air.
Posted on September 10, 2019
Frank’s theme this week is ‘Focus’. We’re all supposed to try and get our images pin-sharp, apparently, but sometimes a little judicious out-of-focus or bokeh seems to make the focus stand out even more.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Focus
Category: Composition, Flowers Tagged: Bokeh, focus, fpj-photo-challenge, leaves, Red, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on May 1, 2017
To my mind, the manipulation of depth of field that is possible with a DSLR camera is one of the most creative aspects of photography. As The Girl That Dreams Awake rightly says in setting this week’s theme, it is most commonly used in macro and portrait photography.
Well, I don’t take many portraits but I do photograph a lot of flowers, where shallow depth of field is particularly effective. This close-up (as opposed to macro) image of a bud about to open was shot at ƒ2.8 – as big an aperture as it gets on that particular lens – in order to throw the background out of focus, providing some pleasing bokeh to complement the subject.
Category: Flowers Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Bokeh, Bud, Depth of field, Flowers, Shallow Depth of Field
Posted on December 3, 2015
All these images place the subject in either the left or right one-third of the image and, I think, are more effective than they would be if they were simply centred. Roll over each image for further explanation.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Bokeh, CCY, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, Flowers, Night, Rule of thirds, Venice
Posted on February 22, 2015
For this week’s challenge, a photograph of some seedpods of an Honesty plant (known in France as ‘monnaie du Pape’ – The Pope’s Money). I do like a bit of bokeh.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: 'Honesty', 'Monnaie du Pape', Bokeh, Flowers, Rule of thirds, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge