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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!

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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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