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Bokeh with T4i

Started Feb 8, 2017 | Discussions thread
jvc1 Senior Member • Posts: 2,202
Re: Bokeh with T4i
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Crotonmark wrote:

jvceac wrote:

Crotonmark wrote:

Thanks again but there is no bokeh in the 135mm shot.

FYI. Bokeh isn't blurred background, it's the quality of the out of focus areas.

Can you explain this more please

I'm not the best person to clearly explain this but I'll give it a shot. Most lenses can give you a blurred background. Bokeh describes the quality of that blurring. If you've seen pictures with blurred lights in the background you can see that the rings those blurred lights produce vary in harshness and shape from 1 leans to another. Some of that is determined by how many blades the lens has, some by the quality of the glass. I'm sure there are other variables as well.

Your original question has nothing to do with the quality of the blurred background (bokeh), just depth of field (front to back area that is in sharp focus). Your 1st picture that has more background blur had the subject close to the lens with a lot of separation between subject and background. in the 2nd picture, the subject was far away from the lens and the distance between the subject and background was minimal.

There are others who frequent these forums who know far more about this than I do so if I've mangled the explanation, please jump in.

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