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Not sure what sort of tree this is, but it has lovely blossom. Deserving of a picture I might add!
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Hehe, no worries. I love little parks like that (but I love big parks more)
To be honest, the bokeh in that is fairly poor, but that has nothing to do with the photographer and only has to do with the lens. One of my favorite lenses has poor bokeh too. In fact, some people will pay over $1000 for a lens that can actually control the bokeh for the creamiest effect (the Nikon DC-Nikkors).
Dunno how much control you have over your camera, but you get the most bokeh at the widest apertures (lowest F-numbers) and it often looks the best when it's wide open because the bokehballs take on the shape of the diaphragm (the thing with blades that changes the size of the aperture). If it's wide open, the opening is usually perfectly round and your bokehballs will be nice and round too.
The bigger your sensor, the more bokeh you can get with a given focal length, and the longer the focal length of the lens, the more bokeh you can get with the same size sensor.
Funny thing too...if you put shaped opening over your lens (a gobo), you can make your bokehballs into whatever shape you want, just like how the diaphragm can make the bokehballs into a polygon shape (I think I can see in your photo that your diaphragm has 6 blades, making your bokehballs into hexagons).
Keep making bokehlicious photos!
To be honest, the bokeh in that is fairly poor, but that has nothing to do with the photographer and only has to do with the lens. One of my favorite lenses has poor bokeh too. In fact, some people will pay over $1000 for a lens that can actually control the bokeh for the creamiest effect (the Nikon DC-Nikkors).
Dunno how much control you have over your camera, but you get the most bokeh at the widest apertures (lowest F-numbers) and it often looks the best when it's wide open because the bokehballs take on the shape of the diaphragm (the thing with blades that changes the size of the aperture). If it's wide open, the opening is usually perfectly round and your bokehballs will be nice and round too.
The bigger your sensor, the more bokeh you can get with a given focal length, and the longer the focal length of the lens, the more bokeh you can get with the same size sensor.
Funny thing too...if you put shaped opening over your lens (a gobo), you can make your bokehballs into whatever shape you want, just like how the diaphragm can make the bokehballs into a polygon shape (I think I can see in your photo that your diaphragm has 6 blades, making your bokehballs into hexagons).
Keep making bokehlicious photos!
Thou hath just boggled mein mind! In a good way ^_^ Learning something new everytime I come onto FA. I have a friend who has a pretty amazing collection of lenses. Though he's spent around 6000 euros amassing his arsenal of photography equipment. lol. I'm still using my fairly middle-of-the-road Fuji. I'm in need of expanding my camera accesories.
For sure, I was just were you are, mostly shooting with my phone because that's what I had on me all the time and it seemed to give good results of flowers and skies and stuff with sunlight. But now I hardly use it because it just annoys me now that I'm used to a DSLR. It really depends on the person, but I'm really good at operating machines and I hated how I couldn't do anything with a compact camera or phone, and all the settings on a DSLR were awesome to have once I got it.
And it would be sweet to have 6000 euros of lenses, so far I've spent $900 total on two lenses. There's so many to get!
And it would be sweet to have 6000 euros of lenses, so far I've spent $900 total on two lenses. There's so many to get!
Most new phones have amazing cameras! I still have my indestructible Nokia 3310. It never dies O_O I guess really, it's what you're used to that you tend to get the best results. When I got my camera for the first time I hadn't much of a concept about aperture, shutter speed, depth of field or any of the technical stuffs. Now I know how it works, I am cam-happy ^_^ What kind of camera do you have btw? You have some pretty amazing photos :)
I know! I don't know where he gets his money from. But he seems to have an bottomless pit of it. Wow, pretty nice :) $900 sounds like quality there!
I know! I don't know where he gets his money from. But he seems to have an bottomless pit of it. Wow, pretty nice :) $900 sounds like quality there!
I have a Nikon D90, it's a DSLR from mid 2008. For the price I paid (it was a used craigslist buy, about 2/3 of what the camera costs new) I've gotten a lot of nice, usable camera. It's a step or two above the entry level DSLRs that feel light, cheap, and lack on controls. I like control and this camera does it pretty well.
Of course there's always better, like the step from crop sensor (DX or 1.6x) to full frame (FX) which means that your low light photos can look much better, but you might have to buy more expensive lenses that cover the larger area of the sensor (full frame is the same size as 35mm film).
Anyway, great first camera and I'm pretty sure I'll end up wearing it out, as the shutter and mirror mechanism eventually fails. It might be after 100,000 or 200,000 photos though...this body is on 27,000. About 10,000 of those are mine (at this rate I'll take 50,000 photos a year!).
All of my submissions have the metadata in them which FA displays on the right. That way you can see how my camera was set for each photo!
Of course there's always better, like the step from crop sensor (DX or 1.6x) to full frame (FX) which means that your low light photos can look much better, but you might have to buy more expensive lenses that cover the larger area of the sensor (full frame is the same size as 35mm film).
Anyway, great first camera and I'm pretty sure I'll end up wearing it out, as the shutter and mirror mechanism eventually fails. It might be after 100,000 or 200,000 photos though...this body is on 27,000. About 10,000 of those are mine (at this rate I'll take 50,000 photos a year!).
All of my submissions have the metadata in them which FA displays on the right. That way you can see how my camera was set for each photo!
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