The good folks at Serious Compacts have tested the Panasonic LX3 against the Samsung EX1/TL500 in terms of bokeh, or out-of-focus blur (to define it in a bit simplistic way). I couldn't help thinking that perhaps it would be more worthwhile to search for better photographs than for better bokeh, but who am I to say to anyone else what to do.
In any case, I'm as fond of using out-of-focus blur as anyone else, to the degree a small-sensor compact such as the LX3 can do it. Here are three examples from today, in each of which bokeh is used in a bit different manner.
In fact, in the last photograph you may say that it would be better to have everything in sharp focus. There is a part of image where the bokeh is quite strong but it may be difficult even to notice it is there.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
The endless search for the perfect bokeh - is the LX3 any good?
136 photo books - SoFoBoMo 2010 is finished
Now it is over for this year: "SoFoBoMo 2010 has finished. 410 people took part. 136 books were completed."
This was a great group effort, and I must thank to organizers for a work well done, and for the support and inspiration. I hope this can be done next year also.
As I noted here earlier, I managed to finish three photo books this year - last year there was only one, and none the year before. I haven't yet received a printed copy of the last photo book, the black-and-white one, so there is something to look forward still.
Now is a good time to rest, go back to work, and wait for the next year and SoFoBoMo 2011.
Here are two photographs from today. I'm thinking of them in terms of a photo book, two photographs on opposing pages on the same spread, illustrating the relative meaning of a term such as "dry".
Butterfly summer
Due to the long hot weather, we are having lots of butterflies, some of which are quite old already, but still vigorously pursuing flowers.
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