The Fieldfare is a singing bird with a huge repertoire of sounds and melodies. If this birds start, others have to pause. They are very good and sound quite exotic. If they start, you think there are several birds, but it is just one – the Fieldfare. Those birds look similar to the Merl(Merle), but with a different plumage. They are more colourful. If I hear such a bird, I take the time, to listen to him. It is a pleasure.
Technical Discourse
If you just want to see the picture, please ignore this technical discourse.
Now I want to give you some thoughts about what bokeh is. As you know, I’m taking pictures with non-pro-equipment. I need maximum sharpness in the frame center, which is Aperture f=8, for my lens. Now look at the right side of the picture. You will notice, that the background (especially the branches) is not soft. It looks a bit displaced. This is, because of the lens. All lenses do this blurring in a different way, depending on their design. If I had used f=6.3, I could have blurred the background a bit more, because of the wider opening of the lens (more light in more directions=more blur). But I would have lost resolution. So I have to make a decision. To make this picture look more like f=4, I had to use a program like Photoshop, and blur the background out on my own. (Which I obviously did not, to show you this effect). This effect is what we call bokeh. It is used to emphasize the main scene/person/animal/object in a scene. This effect is very powerful and makes your photos look professional. There are other aspects to the Aperture, which I skip for now. Use it. It makes fun!
A beautiful Fieldfare
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