Official Photography Contest 7/19/14-7/25/14 Bokeh

Amber

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Bokeh Photo Contest

Contest Description: Bokeh is defined as “"the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Enter your Disney photo using this technique.

Have a question? Feel free to ask.
Don't have a photo to contribute? Wait until voting starts and vote for your favorite photo!

Official Contest Rules
The rules will be very similar as previous years.
Contests will run from Saturday-Friday 11:59pm PACIFIC TIME, submissions after this time will not be included. An individual thread will be created for each contest. My intention is to open new contests and post polls on Saturday mornings. I hope to be able to stick to that, pending any unforeseen circumstances.

1 submission per member, per contest. Once you post your picture, you cannot replace it. You cannot re-use the same entry in multiple contests even if used in a different year. Obviously I cannot remember every picture posted in a contest so try your best to remember if you have entered a picture.

Pictures can be taken with any type of camera (film or digital).

Pictures can not be altered in any way, except to adjust size or add your own personal watermark. This is a photography contest, not a photo-editing contest.

Please resize pictures to be no larger than 1024x768 OR 768X1024

Please do not attach the photo to your post. Upload it to your own personal site and link the photo. You are responsible to ensure the photo is viewable at all times (and not subject to bandwidth limitations).

Pictures can be taken at any time for any contest (if you visited in April of 2002, you can use those pictures for any contest that interests you).

Pictures must be taken by the member submitting the entry, and not by a family member or by a cast member (meaning you physically have to take the entry. CM’s are of course allowed to enter their own photos).

If 10 or less people participated, 1 poll will be posted, and it will be open for 7 days.
If more than 10 entries exist, the entries will be divided into similar-sized groups, and will be listed in the order that they were submitted.

No breaking of park rules or common etiquette to take your pictures. (No accessing restricted areas, no flash photography on attractions which do not allow it....stuff like that)

The overall subject of the contest is "Disney". Although some contests are specific to areas of Walt Disney World, anything "Disney related" can be taken for other contests, including, but not limited to, other Disney parks. For contests like the "Fantasyland photo contest", any Disney park's Fantasyland would be accepted. Some contests allow photos not taken on Disney property and this is noted in the topic description.
 

Amber

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I thought about posting an example, but I don't think I have any of my own that I can use. If you are not familiar with it, google Disney Bokeh. Some of the first results are from a member here. Or just google Bokeh to learn more about it in general.
 
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Allen C

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At the 2014 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival. Straight JPG from camera.

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fractal

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Dont know what this means but Im sure I dont have it.

Here's a definition and link. Bokeh can be very subjective. If you look at @Allen C and @Clamman73 's pictures, it's the out of focus area the bokeh "measures". Is the out of focus area "creamy" or "silky smooth" or is it distracting? The point being, if you are using shallow depth of field to isolate a subject (like the butterfly or Goofy) you don't want the unfocused area to be distracting. Hope this helps. :)




Basically, bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. The blur that you are so used to seeing in photography that separates a subject from the background is the result of shallow “depth of field” and is generally simply called “background blur”. The quality and feel of the background/foreground blur and reflected points of light, however, is what photographers call Bokeh.

Read more: http://photographylife.com/what-is-bokeh#ixzz382DVdqHl
 

Amber

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Since @ZapperZ started us down this road...
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I keep a photo contest entry folder on photobucket and this one isn't in there so I don't think I have entered it before. If anyone knows that I have I will gladly change it. Thanks!
 

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