p.18 #5 · Post your Canon 200mm f/2 (200/2) shots!
dolina wrote:
Blur is cool.
PetKal wrote:
So it is. The capability to wipe out any background utterly is one of the qualities many seek in superfast telephoto lenses.
We photographers tend to like blur, but I found in some applications I found the end user doesn't dig it as much as I/we do. Which is especially puzzling because I find the bokeh of the 200L to be quite harsh, especially stopped down, so you would think a blurrier background would be flattering to the lens
e.g. I took all these shots for a university brochure recently:
p.18 #7 · Post your Canon 200mm f/2 (200/2) shots!
Dawei Ye wrote:
We photographers tend to like blur, but I found in some applications I found the end user doesn't dig it as much as I/we do.
Yeah, that's puzzling. I / we like clean, tidy images with isolated subjects, while most people I talk to want "more in the picture".
Before my interest in photography developed, I was not aware of the shallow DoF effect, and didn't understand what was going on. I only saw images with more or less content.
p.18 #8 · Post your Canon 200mm f/2 (200/2) shots!
Dawei, that is a very pretty child, very well photographed.
One suggestion though: a little bit less background/bokeh, more human contents. Decrease the distance, reframe/crop as required, choose more subdued/neutral background .
p.18 #12 · Post your Canon 200mm f/2 (200/2) shots!
Dawei Ye wrote:
We photographers tend to like blur, but I found in some applications I found the end user doesn't dig it as much as I/we do. Which is especially puzzling because I find the bokeh of the 200L to be quite harsh, especially stopped down, so you would think a blurrier background would be flattering to the lens
e.g. I took all these shots for a university brochure recently:
Does the university have new openings? Maybe too old to be a student, but how about gardeners?
