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Photo of the Day - August 2009
- Thread starter Phrasikleia
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I have not posted on here for a long time so I thought I would throw my hat in the ring again.
This spitfire was taken last weekend at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta:
interesting angle of the Spit. I love Spits. Do you have any more great pics?
I find the Acratech leveling base to be good for getting a tripod level, even though it's not really sturdy enough for my 400/2.8 I usually shoot with it on anyway as I can level in about 2 seconds no matter where in the ground my legs sit. (Up to 10 degrees, I think the Gitzo one is 15, which would be handy, but I wasn't sure about compatibility with my new base plate.)
http://acratech.net/product.php?productid=14
But again, we didn't use the term "point of light" on film. Which is why you'll see all of the older material on Bokeh refer to either specular highlights or point sources of light.
Yes, I often did say differently- multifrequency modems changed the bit rate not the baud rate- but then at the time and how the transfer speed was attained often had a bearing on what I was doing at the time.
It's a good analogy because it shows that people will misuse a term to the point of re-definition.
What I am saying is that the blog author is of the "let's have multiple definitions" camp and comes much later than the original definition/usage of the term.
Literal definitions rarely cross language barriers, at the time the term was introduced to the West in the mid-90's there was quite a bit of discussion about trying to encapsulate the meaning- if it simply meant blur, then we'd all say "blur" not "bokeh."
Compare and contrast with the cover of this LP* by George Harrison (not a real road... but a canvas of a 'photo-realist painting).
* For younger forum users, an LP was a big round, black thing covered in wavy lines, that played music.
Taken yesterday near the "Wine Road" of Jeruzalem, Slovenia:
So it can be nice and sunny there! We passed a couple of weeks ago in the pouring rain on the way to Hungary. Funny name for a village in that remote spot.
I like that as well. I'm a fan of that rusted old machinery vibe. I shot this (clickable) one recently.
I don't know if I tweaked it correctly, though. My work computer and my laptop have very different monitors, neither of which are calibrated. So it looks very dark at work, and well exposed at home. Thoughts?
As in "specular highlight"?
You didn't happen to respond to my question regarding the yellow flower example I posted. Guess I'll be ordering the large print from your site.
I like that as well. I'm a fan of that rusted old machinery vibe. I shot this (clickable) one recently.
I don't know if I tweaked it correctly, though. My work computer and my laptop have very different monitors, neither of which are calibrated. So it looks very dark at work, and well exposed at home. Thoughts?
Brightness looks ok at 2.2 gamma here- I'd love to see a close-up grill-on shot in the slanted evening light!
As in "specular highlight"?
You didn't happen to respond to my question regarding the yellow flower example I posted. Guess I'll be ordering the large print from your site.
I've already answered it, to revisit the same information over and over is tedious. No, there is no bokeh in the image by the original definition, which was about specular highlights. The definition was then adjusted to point sources, since there is no effective difference in the light rendered through the aperture between a reflected specular highlight and a point source since a specular highlight is one example of a point source. Next people tried to either branch off new definitions by throwing modifiers in front of the term, or to increase its scope to include the pleasantness of the rendering of OOF areas by the aperture of the lens, as in your example, now people are increasingly using it to mean "shallow depth of field." At some point the redefinitions negate the need for the term at all, as we could simply use "blur" and be done with it. At which point of redefinition it becomes pointless, or over-modification it becomes tedious is left as an exercise to the reader, I've already made my position quite clear.
Taken yesterday near the "Wine Road" of Jeruzalem, Slovenia:
Wonderful composition. I wonder if coming up a third of a stop or so on the shadows on the right might make the exposure more balanced though?
Ah, there's a hole in your geographical knowledge!
If you're near SLC, it won't cost a lot of dough to get there!
Don't get too close though, someone might dunk you!
http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/doughnutfalls.html
(Google is my friend!)
Ah, there's a hole in your geographical knowledge!
If you're near SLC, it won't cost a lot of dough to get there!
Don't get too close though, someone might dunk you!
http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/doughnutfalls.html
(Google is my friend!)
Nice, very punny
Getting a little more Tilt use out of the rental 45mm TS 2.8, the blur is all optic. I adjusted colors, temp and added a vignette.
Canon EOS 20D :: 45 mm :: f 2.8 :: 1/640 sec :: iso 200 :: CA Sunbounce
Canon EOS 20D :: 45 mm :: f 2.8 :: 1/640 sec :: iso 200 :: CA Sunbounce
Getting a little more Tilt use out of the rental 45mm TS 2.8, the blur is all optic. I adjusted colors, temp and added a vignette.
Canon EOS 20D :: 45 mm :: f 2.8 :: 1/640 sec :: iso 200 :: CA Sunbounce
Nice!! I want to try one out... There's a little bitty hair in the upper left, but cool shot! I played with my friend's TS for like two minutes and wow was it fun!
