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Photo of the Day - November 2021

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Taken from a vineyard gate in Soave, Italy - iPhone 13 pro Max
 
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MacNut said:
11 Pro Max.
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Cellphone? Outstanding!

I plan to buy an iPhone 13 Pro (the smaller 3-lens version) as a gift for my wife. She has a couple of cameras, including an Olympus with several top of the line Olympus lenses, but she seldom uses them because she is always too busy, and also because she's "technically-challenged" relating to the camera menus and functions. As such, she finds her iPhone 11's cameras less challenging and handier (the cameras are collecting dust in the closet) :)

I just buy it "unlocked," and with cash up-front from the Apple Store (online). That way I am not tied to a contract with any of the major cellphone service companies.
 
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AlaskaMoose said:
If it had an eye, it would be a cobra.
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Heh, yeah, it does look rather snakelike, doesn't it?! Ewwwww!!!! While I was shooting with my beloved 90mm macro lens, I noticed that tiny thread of cobweb or whatever it is at the end of the stalk and decided to do a shot where just the tip of the stalk would be in focus, including that cobwebby thingy, leaving everything else up to the lens' natural tendency towards bokeh.......
 
Clix Pix said:
Heh, yeah, it does look rather snakelike, doesn't it?! Ewwwww!!!! While I was shooting with my beloved 90mm macro lens, I noticed that tiny thread of cobweb or whatever it is at the end of the stalk and decided to do a shot where just the tip of the stalk would be in focus, including that cobwebby thingy, leaving everything else up to the lens' natural tendency towards bokeh.......
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as @bunnspecial has explained, there is no bokeh in your image. you are seeing background blur due to a shallow depth of field. bokeh is the quality and shape of the out of focus areas you would find with lights in the background, whether actual lights (headlights, streetlamps, twinkle lights, or areas between tree leaves, etc.). you have none of that in your pumpkin image. background blur, yes. bokeh no.


What is Bokeh?​

Basically, bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. The blur that you are so used to seeing in photography that separates a subject from the background is the result of shallow “depth of field” and is generally simply called “background blur”. The quality and feel of the background/foreground blur and reflected points of light, however, is what photographers call Bokeh.
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