A small and belated September update for 2024, where I am still, after many years' membership, on 365 Project, also now posting elsewhere but wanting...
@quietpurplehaze Hi Hazel - yes, a good example of bokeh generated by the way your lens (Sigma 30mm?) renders the small points of light filtering through the flower heads. You can actually make the shape whatever you want by cutting it out of a cardboard disk which you place over the lens like a filter - Mr Google will show you how ☺
Lacking one or two ingredients but will have a try sometime. I think bokeh works best when it is an add-on to the main subject. Amd I always thought my a6000 with its pre- focus was (one of ) the sharpest shooter(s) in the west....!!!
@quietpurplehaze Don't panic Hazel, your A6000 is indeed fast - it was the lens I was referring to: f/3.5 wide-open is a little slow if you're going to cover up a large part of the lens surface... f/2 or faster is better.
@quietpurplehaze That would be the one to use and wide-open. Incidentally, I sold my one yesterday as I had hardly used it... except for the very first image that I posted 1January 2014!
I don't like parting with any of my gear but I sold around half of my Sony APS-C stuff... and came home with an A7iii and the Zeiss 24-70mm f/4 - now suffering from severe wallet ache!
Richard, I think this qualifies for bokeh - hexagonal even?!
Good, thank you. Cannot imagine how the cardboard shape works, but thanks for the tip, will investigate. The lens is 30mm 3.5 Sony - love it.
I hadn't either!
Lacking one or two ingredients but will have a try sometime. I think bokeh works best when it is an add-on to the main subject. Amd I always thought my a6000 with its pre- focus was (one of ) the sharpest shooter(s) in the west....!!!
My fastest is the 50mm portrait lens at 1.8. (I love that lens too!)
The bokeh was natural. I don't have a clue how to add artificial bokeh!!
Well it got you started, Richard!!
No gain without pain - I am only a little envious!