Can you spot the fake bokeh? ANSWER REVEALED

[joescrivens]

They all look weird in one way or another...

I've only just figured out that it isn't an actual filter, just some photoshop plug-in...

I think the point is that it doesn't really matter whether you can tell if the bokeh is fake or not, unless its actually attractive..

You need to train your eye, 4 of them are completely natural so nothing weird about them at all. Also the plugin is a filter.

 

[joescrivens]

I'll still use fast lenses in daylight - for shallow depth of field. Critical to the way I shoot and the idea of using a plugin to get something that a lens does for you is odd to me. More work after the event.

Not sure you get the point, it was just a test of a filter. Nobody would substitue using this instead of a lens with shallow dof. Some people might not have fast lenses and can use this as a substitue. It's like any filter that does things like this post production. Are you annoyed cos you couldn't guess it lol...just kidding

 

[PsiFox]

So which plug-in was it?

 

[joescrivens]

It's by Alien skin, and it's called Bokeh

 

[jontucker]

What gave it away on 4 was that the near gravestone looks equally as bokehfied as the background as opposed to a steady increase in bokehficosity with distance away from the focal plane. Would it be possible to apply the filter with different intensities in different areas? I reckon it would look better if you applied more bokehification to the far background than to the near graves.

When I die, I want my grave stone to be bokehficationalizationafied.