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Challenge: Bokeh (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Pelham Parkway, Bronx, NY
Date: Jan 9, 2005
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 80
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2005

 My friends, me & a huge mother sword in public. Phew! Made it thru the shoot w/o the police rolling up on us asking 20 questions.

It was a short shoot but was really fun, especially bc my sword-wielding friend tripped & fell flat on his face for the very last shot. Hehehe. He emerged from it unscathed & we got a good chuckle from it all.

Anyway, not much to the shot. The dof was not too intense so I incerased it by adding a bit of gluassian blur as well as a lens blur. Layered the shot, ditching the colour on one.
Had a few different crops that I liked but ended up using this one. Anywho, resized the bad boy & then opt for web.

I really wanted to capture something about the intangible in this shot. The Bokeh technique is actually kinda fun & allowed me to bring forth the idea of emotions we feel, like fear, that can distrupt our unsuspecting lives when we least expect it.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2005 07:10:34 PM
Love the expression of the guy in the background: "Why I oughta...!" Not quite bokeh in my book, but I really enjoy the image anyway.
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 01/13/2005 05:21:52 PM
The challenge said the bokeh should "enhance" the subject - not scare it! But anyway - a well done and thought-provoking image.
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 01/12/2005 09:29:35 PM
One of the best I've come across so far
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 01/11/2005 09:59:50 AM
was this done in photoshop or with a lensbaby?
 01/11/2005 02:46:21 AM
That's just too cool!
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 01/10/2005 10:10:49 PM
Very creative and haunting image. The foreground model has a pronounced halo, almost as if the image was extracted and then placed into another image. Probably not the case, but it does take away from an otherwise near perfect capture.
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 01/10/2005 08:20:59 PM
nice..
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 01/10/2005 03:05:17 PM
Good use of selective desat. The guy in the red hoodie is apparently left-handed, which makes him look a little weird, because images of people "about to swing" often feature the thing to be swung above the right shoulder. But that may be neither here nor there.
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 01/10/2005 10:02:29 AM
The short definition of Bokeh from KenRockwell.com: "Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light." Is the subject enhanced by the bokeh of the background? For this particular image I'd say no. The desaturation of the subject makes this a more interesting shot.
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 01/10/2005 02:19:30 AM
wonderful shot.. i'm sure you'll get grilled on whether or not this is actually bokeh, but i'll just go ahead and leave it at my first comment.
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