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Like every photographer newly bitten by the photography bug, I read voraciously about my new hobby – although I think in recent years Youtube has become the main source of info for photographers. One of the magazines I would devour every week, was Amateur Photographer. It is incredible to think this magazine has been going since 1884. Incredible longevity.<\/p>\n
And with that, it was quite an honor when the team at AP asked if I wanted to contribute an article on bokeh<\/a>. It’s one of my pet hates in photography when people interchange ‘shallow depth of field’ for ‘bokeh’. There’s a relationship, but not that direct equivalence. So I am particular about using the phrase ‘bokeh’, defined as the subjective quality of (usually) the foreground blur. I’m very specific about distinguishing it from shallow depth of field.<\/p>\n In this article, I used images shown in articles on using vintage lenses. That’s the specific appeal for me in using vintage lenses<\/a> – their often unique rendering of the out of focus background. ie, the bokeh of the lenses. So in the article I use these as examples of interesting bokeh<\/strong>, extending it further than the usual desire for “smooth” bokeh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For example, as in this photo (not shown in the article in Amateur Photographer)\u00a0of Anastasiya<\/a> in Times Square, photographed in Times Square with the legendary Trioplan 100mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>). The bokeh certainly isn’t harsh with a jittery edge to it. But neither is it smooth. There’s an interesting structure to it. And that is what I love about using vintage lenses – they all have different characteristics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published in Amateur Photographer : Beautiful bokeh Like every photographer newly bitten by the photography bug, I read voraciously about my new hobby – although I think in recent years Youtube has become the main source of info for photographers. One of the magazines I would devour every week, was Amateur Photographer. It is incredible Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[866,8001,966],"yst_prominent_words":[13723,13724,1559,1158,13726,13725,1217,9342,1189,1160,1020,4504,4488,1218,1573,4495,12808,12807,4314,3993],"class_list":{"0":"post-50764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bokeh","8":"category-publication","9":"tag-bokeh","10":"tag-classic-lenses","11":"tag-vintage-lenses","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50764"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50786,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764\/revisions\/50786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50764"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Trioplan](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/vintage-lenses\/trioplan-100mm\/Trioplan-100mm-bokeh_0858.jpg\")
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