I find the first one hard on the eyes and the second just lovely.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I had similar thoughts, but I think I might desaturate the orange a
> bit and call it good. Too little time for more promising images to
> spend a lot of time PS-ing this one.
>
> Bokeh wasn't too ugly on this one:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/IRNP/Tobin%20Harbor/slides/ir40.html
>
> I used fairly small stops because I carried a tripod and many subjects
> were in the MR of 1:10 or smaller. It's more important to me to get
> the right stuff in focus than achieve inspiring bokeh, though it's
> nice to get both. It reminds me that I need to bracket more for focus
> and DOF than I do.
>
> Other examples show the capabilities of the lens to good enough effect:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/IRNP/Tobin%20Harbor/slides/ir18.html
>
> but not everyone will enjoy background like that.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It appears the bokeh champ didn't do so well on that one. But I don't
>> think it's anything you did. The center white spots appear to be
>> composed of a sharper central ring and fuzzy outer ring. That part of
>> the image looks busy and jittery. If it were mine I'd first turn the
>> saturation of the orange areas way down and then apply some gaussian
>> blur to the background to get rid of those busy concentric rings.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>> Here is a photo made with the bokeh champ, Zuiko 90/2 on E-1:
>>>
>>> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/IRNP/Scoville%20Point%20Trail/slides/ir11.html
>>>
>>> I don't like some of the halo-ing in this photo either, but I would
>>> attribute it to my poor craftsmanship rather than to the lens.
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