Poll: What kind you do use a bokeh?

[Photography]

Poll: What kind you do use a bokeh?

[BigFuzzy]

Interesting poll, but it's flawed. You should give us the option to choose more than one option as I can imagine many people achieve bokeh in more than just one way. Me, I really only ever use bokeh as produced by my lens and settings.

[steamsmyclams]

In camera lens for me. I've never really experimented with anything extra to create bokeh. Though, isn't it "cheating" to add bokeh in post-production?

[BigFuzzy]

Originally Posted by steamsmyclams

In camera lens for me. I've never really experimented with anything extra to create bokeh. Though, isn't it "cheating" to add bokeh in post-production?

Post-production is a tool just like any other tool. So I disagree with using the term 'cheat'
However, I've yet to find fake Bokeh/DoF that looked good except on some of the "miniature model" photos people fake, some of which are quite good (though most still look like crap).

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by BigFuzzy

Post-production is a tool just like any other tool. So I disagree with using the term 'cheat'

+1. I strongly disagree with the "photo shop is cheating" mentality.

[steamsmyclams]

I do post-production work on pretty much all of my shots so I also don't agree with post production in photoshop, lightroom, etc, being "cheating".

But i just thought that the whole point of bokeh was that it was meant to be an effect caused by the lens rather that production work. Can it really be called bokeh if it's added in via post-production?

[nickbedford]

Yeah I must admit, bokeh to me is the real background blur created by the characteristics of the lens and it's aperture (or your own shaped aperture).

[daft_biker]

Originally Posted by NicoleScraps

+1. I strongly disagree with the "photo shop is cheating" mentality.

Photoshop is for wimps

[PnwGuy]

Photoshop is a tool. Just like all tools it can be used in a variety of ways. Some people tend to overuse it, but that just defines their style. Photoshop isn't cheating. I think it can take a photograph and make it more "art" than a photograph, but again, that's up the the style of the shooter/editor. Personally the less PP I have to do the better, but some shots just call for extra.

[Jim Bryant]

Originally Posted by daft_biker

Photoshop is for wimps

That's because you either don't have it or don't know how to properly use it.