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Out of Focus

While my wife drove, I had fun capturing images out of the windshield while experimenting with the focusing ring of the aperture of my Asahi SMC Takumar 55mm f/2 lens attached to my Fujifilm X-T2.…

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Macro Moments Challenge #36 Bokeh

The word bokeh is a Japanese loanword to the English language. The term refers to the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image. Note that bokeh is not the same as a blur. Bokeh is the quality of the blur. Visible bokeh is often achieved by shooting at very wide apertures to blur the background. One of the characteristics of macro photography is that subjects are shot at close distances. While this close camera-to-subject proximity can lead…

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