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Vegas lol Anonymous
Who says you need an expensive camera to take good looking photos?
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>> Anonymous
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bonus points to those who know where these photos were taken.

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>> Photon
No one said that you need a good camera to get good photos.
But you need a good camera if you want special effects such as bokeh or night shooting or long exposures.

Photos taken in Vegas? lol
>> ac
>>37441
I can do all of those with my 30 year old Minolta SR-T...

Also, Bokeh isn't really a "special effect" so much as it is a "fundamental characteristic of optics"
>> Anonymous
thats vegas lol
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>37570
you need an adjustable focal length for that. you can't get that on a cameraphone.
>> Anonymous
Actually, adjustable focal length has nothing at all to do with bokeh.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>37608
so then how come the only way i can blur anything out without photoshop is to hold my camera within 7 inches or so of it
>> des
>>37611
bokeh refers to out-of-focus parts of your image, wide angle lenses and small sensors give you more depth of field. More depth of field means less out-of-focus area.
it's almost all lens related but film(sensor, too, I suppose) can change the "feel" of OoF areas slightly, too.
>> Anonymous
>>37611

You may be confusing focal length with focus. Focal length refers to the lens' optics i.e. a 50mm lens or a 17-40mm lens or a 200mm lens. Focus is just how close or far away of an object the lens is focused on. Your camera probably has a relatively small maximum aperture and a relatively small focal length which equates to very large depth of field which means you have to get right up close to something and have the background be far away to get the shallow depth of field associated with bokeh.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>37614
it has the smallest max aperture around, and when i get up close to things that i want to focus on, they go out of focus and the background stays sharp.
>> Anonymous
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How's this for a vegas shot with a cheap camera?

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>> ac
Things that affect your depth of field:
1. Aperture size
2. Focus distance
3. Imaging surface size

Larger apertures give you shallower depth of field. Focusing on a closer object will give you shallower depth of field. A larger imaging surface will give you shallower depth of field.

Your main problem with your EX-S2 is that, like most P&S digital cameras, you have a tiny sensor. Secondary problem is your max aperture (f/3.2). However, as you've learned, you can compensate by getting really close to your subject.

This is one of the really nice things about a digital SLR. The big 1.5x or 1.6x crop sensors in dSLRs mean that it's really easy to have a shallow depth of field. Of course, on the other hand, it means it's really easy to have a shallow depth of field, which is not always what you want.

Film cameras and full-frame digitals are even easier to have shallow depth of field, and it's even easier still with medium and large format film cameras. Ansel Adams liked to shoot his (large format) film camera at f/64 so he could get everything in focus.
>> Anonymous
>>37696
Could be better, mind the overexposed house on the left also, don't know the appropriate term for it, kept the lens open longer, if I'm not mistaken. And, the green grass on the lower right feels kind of empty, some detail, like say, some statue or something would be perfect. Overall, I might say I like it.
>> Anonymous
Hahaha funny you should say that... I actually shopped out a bum and a can lying on the grass... can you seem them? NO! muahahaha