Julian Loke wrote:
>
> > "Ray Amos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I know I'm going to get a lot of grief for this, but neither is the
> > Canon 100-400 IS lens ... I think it's fine for landscapes and other
> > things when Bokeh is not so important. I place more importance on
> > wildlife photography because that's what I do. Maybe it's just
> > impossible to have good Bokeh with a 4:1 zoom lens with variable
> > aperture at f/5.6.
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> Difficult, but not impossible :-) Like everything else in Photography!
>
> One has to take care that the background is plain. Linear background
> elements like twigs, branches or wires are rendered most distractingly.
> It also helps to have the background at least five times further away
> than the subject.
>
> Here is one example (handheld, shot near life-size, EF100-400 + 500D)
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elan7e/files/Julian%20Loke/succ002a.jpg
>
> Cheers
> Julian Loke
You're right about not being impossible. But I was speaking of every
shot out of 1,000 shots a weekend many weekends a year. Not just one
set up shot. In your example, any 400mm lens focused 6" from the front
of the lens will have good background blur. Also, as I'm sure you know,
Bokeh is not just background blur. It's a special kind of background
blur.
Ray Amos
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