Not A Matter Of Life & Dof

I typed four paragraphs about Bokeh (aka the Out Of Depth of field area of pictures) before thinking better of it and deleting it. That's 60 minutes of my life I won't get back, but I've saved anybody reading this a boring five minutes. I'm not going to write about it

I'll show you what I mean

Ohhhhh Buttery Smooth Bokeh. Shame about the model

 Grave of my parents

Diane getting in the way of my blur

Grave of Diane's parents

Sean


Update:

Famed Bokeh Lens

The 135mm F/2.0 L that I used for these pictures is a famed lens with Canon shooters. Lot’s of people like to get ‘Background Separation' with this lens by opening up the aperture to F/2.0. 

I  just  like to be able to still shoot in tough light. If I take somebody out to shoot them and then begin to separate them from their background, I usually conclude that I must have taken them to the wrong place. If It’s a found picture, say in a bar or on a street, I'm obviously there because that’s the environment where the things I like to shoot are to be found, that's the environment I love. Why would I want to blur that away?

The camera and lens is a heavy old 5.5lb combo . It was twilight in late December, the light was fading, I’m not muscle bound. I shot at F/2.0 so I could get  comfortable shutter speeds. The 'Bokeh', 'Background Blur' 'O.D.F' area in the pictures are a consequence of the conditions I was shooting in, not really an aesthetic choice at all. 

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