Wow! What a rollercoaster ride Bokeh is every time it comes up - eh? :D
So many fine entries to look at. Unfortunately not all have a chance to shine in the results.
Did you have any that came up short of where you thought they would finish? Besides your own that is, we're rarely satisfied in that regard. He-he. So please, show the "underrated" Bokeh entries from your voting list.
I'll start with this one...thought for sure it was a top 10.
I didn't vote on this one, but it seems that, as usual, a lot of potentially good entries ended up near the bottom of the pile because people imposed their own narror definitions on the project descriptions. Shame.
At least the comments on my own image were fair - some people got DNMC comments when their images clearly contained out of focus parts, many of which were very cleverly designed. The images did meet the challenge, but I think people were looking for shiny circles and voted 1 on images that didn't have them.
I voted this lower because it seems to be someone else's artwork taken through a pane of glass. If that's not the case, then it deserves a 12 at least.
I hope that before the next Bokeh Challenge that the tutorial on Bokeh is found and displayed. I think there is a difference between Bokeh and an OOF background. The #11 finisher has a good display of Bokeh in my opinion.
I once read on wikipedia that beavers were large, angry rodents who would savagely attack a passerby with their monstrous front teeth at the slightest provocation.
I once read on wikipedia that beavers were large, angry rodents who would savagely attack a passerby with their monstrous front teeth at the slightest provocation.
LOL. Those posts tend to be corrected fairly quickly. If you prefer... from Dictionary.com: a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image
I once read on wikipedia that beavers were large, angry rodents who would savagely attack a passerby with their monstrous front teeth at the slightest provocation.
I think there is a difference between Bokeh and an OOF background.
Thinking something doesn't make it so. The definition is easy. Getting people to accept it seems to be the hard part. :-/
From Wikipedia:Bokeh is a photographic term describing the subjective aesthetic qualities of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens.
I like your statement on "Getting People to Accept It".
I am amazed, no too strong of a word, Suprised that people think you have to go one way to have bokeh (Must have Circles or Must NOT have circles). I find that if the quality of the out of focus area (circles or no) enhances it, it is Good Bokeh.
