Wide open: Blur That Background!

[CoryonFire]

Hey everybody, I thought a cool idea for a thread would be to strut your stuff and show us your best show with a wide open aperture, i.e. f/1.4 or f/2.8. Here's a shot of the the Haunted Mansion gravestones at f/1.4 to get things rolling.



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[PhotoDave219]

I shoot everything (except fireworks) wide open.

 

[Laura]

You just want blurred BG shots or specifically wide aperture? I get better bokeh from my telephoto than my f 1.8 usually.

I also have my aperture maxed out 95% of the time so I'm having trouble thinking of anything specific to add to this thread. :lol:

 

[CoryonFire]

You just want blurred BG shots or specifically wide aperture? I get better bokeh from my telephoto than my f 1.8 usually.

I also have my aperture maxed out 95% of the time so I'm having trouble thinking of anything specific to add to this thread. :lol:

I was looking for anything where the lens is at it's maximum aperture. So if you've got an f/4 telephoto, feel free to post shots from that, just at f/4!

 

[WDWFigment]

Do you all really usually shoot wide open? I can understand doing it out of necessity (sports), but are you actually doing it by choice?

 

[Ravenscroft]

I try to shoot wide open most of the time. I prefer the Bokeh over the detail. Although I have been doing more Semi-Macro's lately, but when the occasion calls for higher I'll do it. I don't have anything from WDW posted to Flickr just yet but I have DL stuff there, and I am editing more shots from DL now. I have to finish my WDW shots from back in June.......I am slow (also I get distra.....SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PhotoDave219]

Do you all really usually shoot wide open? I can understand doing it out of necessity (sports), but are you actually doing it by choice?

Yes.... i generally use Depth of field as a way to only illustrate what i want to illustrate.

 

[mainstreet1997]

 

[scorp111]

A flower on the fence at ASMu. Flowers are so overdone, but I really like what the DOF did to this shot, and how it almost looks like it is sitting on water or glass.

 

[BillyBuff]

1/80th shutter @ F/2.8 (ISO 640):

But sometimes it depends on the distance of the subject in the background. The further away the background subject is, the more "bokeh" you'll have. Here's 1/250th at F/4.5 (ISO 50):