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hogmaster #195097 12/16/10 11:12 PM
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That's how English has always worked - we just did find a good word: bokeh!

Good round, ladies and gentlemen, and thanks to the hogmaster.


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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8


Pygmies on the Andamans?


They're more often referred to as Negritos, but, yeah, they're there.

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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8


Pygmies on the Andamans?


They're more often referred to as Negritos, but, yeah, they're there.


I stand educated. Thank you verymuch.


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Originally Posted By: tsuwm

...... the ruling on the field stands.


Roolz is Roolz

and I accept its my fault.

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It was a great find tsuwm.

With Photoshop and the like programs you can apply a gradient mask to get a 'Lens Blur' effect which gives an image a depth of field effect.






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My poor lonely ineffectual joke ?? Bloke, eh?

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Originally Posted By: Candy
It was a great find tsuwm.

With Photoshop and the like programs you can apply a gradient mask to get a 'Lens Blur' effect which gives an image a depth of field effect.


In photography, bokeh (pronounced /boʊˈkeɪ/) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting�"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. -wiki

so bokeh is not the same as depth-of-field, but rather the (subjective) quality of the out-of-focus region.

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Yes...I understand that, but with photoshop, this effect can be manipulated and change the way we view a picture or subject by shifting the focal point. Call it faux bokeh.

This photo was taken with camera
Sunflowers

This one normal photo.
Horse 1


Same photo altered by photoshop.
Horse 2

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I prefer horse #1, keep the blurring.


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