Bokeh. Are you having a laugh?

[New Shooter]

Bokeh.

Yes Bokeh?

Anyone know what it is? I've bought a 300D, half a dozen lenses including some cool ones that make a whirring noise when you take pictures while hopping on one leg and one which is an "L" and you can see loads of things to the left and right when you look at the picture.

I met a professional photographer the other day and she uses a Nikon. She had never heard of Bokeh. She advised me that some people here were taking the mickey.

Apologies, but I am new to this game. (See previous niave posts for proof.)

I am also new to this forum, so any help with "BTW", "POV" and "not fast enough" [all regular catch-phrases here] would be gratefully received.

PS. Thanks to the people who gave me the tip about the undewear and the Dyson vacuum trick. My insurer saw the funny side.

JD

[cecilc]

I am also new to this forum, so any help with "BTW", "POV" and "not fast enough" [all regular catch-phrases here] would be gratefully received.

BTW = by the way
POV = point of view
not fast enough = used to describe any lens where the max aperture is not big enough to let in enough light to allow for a shutter speed fast enough to stop action and still be properly exposed (did I get that right, everyone?) ....

[daaaveman]

BTW - by the way
POV - point of view
IMO - in my opinion
IMHO - In my honest opinion
LOL - laugh out loud
ROFLMAO - roll on floor, lauch my a** off
PEBCAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard

I'll leave it at that. There are many internet chat acronyms.

The bokeh and lens speed questions require some explaination and I'm just leaving work.

Welcome aboard though new shooter. Enjoy and a teacher once taught me that there are no stupid questions. I knew nothing when I arrived here either. I will say BOKEH IS KEWL!!

[BearSummer]

Bokeh,

hmm, well actually its the cunning japanese version of the english phrase "F8 and be there", you see it should be 8okeh which if you replace the spaces (which get lost when you translate from kanji) becomes "8 ok eh" which is just an abreviation of
f8 ok, eh?

Which just goes to show that they were asking if f8 was the place to be.

simple when you know how

Best regards

BearSummer

[arumdevil]

PS. Thanks to the people who gave me the tip about the undewear and the Dyson vacuum trick. My insurer saw the funny side.

JD

what trick would that be? i must have missed that one.

don't worry, you're not being had (unless they got me too!!) Bokeh is real.

it's something to do with background blur/ out of focus area in the photo. Not sure if that's all it refers to or if there's more to it than that. It's a Japanese word I think.

I'm sure some of the more knowledgeable folk here will chime in with a better definition.

[Cadwell]

"Bokeh" - a word used to describe the visual quality of the blurred out of focus background to a shot... what's good "bokeh" and bad "bokeh" is kinda subjective.

"BTW" - shorthand for "By The Way".

"POV" - shorthand for "Point Of View"

"not fast enough" - could be many things but here, more often than not, it refers to a lens with a smallish maximum aperture. An f/2.8 zoom would be considered "fast" and an f/5.6 zoom may well be "not fast enough".

[vfilby]

Check this out http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm , just remember it is the quality of the out of focus sections of your image. It kinda dictates how the blurred part of your background looks.

Vince

[vfilby]

Woo and here is a better link IMHO http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml .

IMHO = in my humble opinion.

Vince

[arumdevil]

hehe, 3 posts while I was typing :D

as i understand it, "IMHO" means "in my humble opinion" , but of course these things will vary from person to person and there's no way you can be sure which one they mean :D not that it matters....

welcome to the forum, and Digital photography..

[Ballen Photo]

Bokeh.

Yes Bokeh?

Anyone know what it is?

I met a professional photographer the other day and she uses a Nikon. She had never heard of Bokeh. She advised me that some people here were taking the mickey.



LOL JD!
You can now explain to that "PRO" what Bokeh is. Bokeh is simply what some people refer to as the circles of confusion in the background of a shot that is focussed on a subject at a set distance, and the background is Blown out. Used properly on say, a portrait or head shot where you want the background blown out, bokeh good or bad is the quality of the little circles created by being way out of focus. The quality of bokeh will vary from lens to lens, ie, a good lens should have good bokeh too.
I hope this has helped.
........Bruce

[timmyquest]

omg stfu n00b

Oh my god, Shut the F*** up, n00b which means newb, or new as in new person to the boards (in this case)


:-)

[PacAce]

I met a professional photographer the other day and she uses a Nikon. She had never heard of Bokeh. She advised me that some people here were taking the mickey.


Any professional photographer worth his/her salt should know what a "bokeh" is, for crying out loud. Or maybe it's just that bokeh is an attribute missing from Nikon lenses altogether and hence why this Nikon shooter is clueless about it. :mrgreen:

BTW, here's another acronym. GO ("Get out!" or "Get oot!" in Canadian - a form of exclamation, especially one of disbelief). :lol:

[vfilby]

Next time tell her that, "Obviously Nikon won't have advanced features such as boken because it is lower class gear." State it matter of factly and keep a straight face.

Vince

[Ballen Photo]

Next time tell her that, "Obviously Nikon won't have advanced features such as boken because it is lower class gear." State it matter of factly and keep a straight face.

Vince

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
-Bruce

[New Shooter]

By 'eck, its taken 3 posts and someones advised me to stfu?!

Moderator, moderator - I know the guy has posted more notes on here than I have "hhd" (had hot dinners) but "ganab" (give a noob a break)?!

Anyway I have posts drafted and pending on:

- Photoshop - is it worth the cash?
- L lenses. Do they look impressive to noobs, if you're colour blind?
- Whether a 70-200 F2.8 counts in your hand luggage allowance when you go on holiday?
- Are titanium Powerbooks "like so last year"? Do I have to own aluminium to pass muster?

Anyone else object to Noobs who don't take "MkII vs MkI" debates too seriously? I just LOVE taking pictures and typing forum queries afterwards. Weird, I know - but last count there was several hundred of us doing the same thing at the same time...

For the forum member who asked me to clarify the bit about the Dyson and the underwear it was a semi-serious attempt to get a half kilo of sand out of the 300D after my five year old's kite flew off while I was changing lenses on a beach. When I work out how to make a link to the previous post I will do so, but until then, hope the clumsy explanation helps.

JD

[vfilby]

Calm down JD, I think that it is safe to say that TQ was merely pointing out what omg stfu n00b meant.

as far is linking posts, just find the post and paste the URL (uniform resource locater) and paste it into a message. The forum will automatically make it a link if it starts with http://

Vince

[Penguin_101_1]

Here is a good guide for everything! I didn't event even read all of them :lol:

Here is a link: http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm

Acronyms & Shorthand
Known as Chat Acronyms and E-mail Shorthand, these "abbreviations" are also used in Newsgroup Postings and IRC
Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture and now they are popular on the Internet to represent common phrases that people say to one another. Part of the reason they are used so much is because it's quicker and easier to type out a few letters, rather than typing out the full expression. They're also fun, but some can be naughty so watch out! To find out the meaning of a certain acronym, scroll down and look at it's corresponding phrase below.

BTW: If you ever see someone TYPING AN ENTIRE SENTENCE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS that means SHOUTING! It is not proper netiquette to TYPE IN ALL CAPS (even in e-mail), in fact, it's annoying. if you're in a hurry (or want to do what many people online already do), then type in all lower case, unless you want to imply that YOU ARE SHOUTING!

Got a favorite one you don't see here? Suggest an acronym!

2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be
4ever Forever
A/S/L Age/Sex/Location
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle
AISI As I See It
AKA or a.k.a. Also Known As
AMBW All My Best Wishes
ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word Word From Our Web Sponsor
AOAS All Of A Sudden
AOB Abuse Of Bandwidth
AP Apple Pie
ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATST At The Same Time
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Sh** Again
AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something
B4 Before
B4N Bye For Now
BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BCBS Big Company, Big School
BCNU Be Seein' You
BDC Big Dumb Company or Big Dot Com
BDN Big Damn Number
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
BIF Basis In Fact or Before I Forget
BITD Back In The Day
BM Byte Me
BMOTA Byte Me On The Ass
BNF Big Name Fan
BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BR Bathroom
BRB Be Right Back
BRT Be Right There
BS Big Smile
BT Byte This
BTA But Then Again or Before The Attacks
BTDT Been There Done That
BTSOOM Beats The Sh** Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BWDIK But What Do I Know?
BWO Black, White or Other
C/P Cross Post
CIAO Goodbye (in Italian)
CID Consider It Done
CIS CompuServe Information Service
CMF Count My Fingers
CofS Church of Scientology
CRAFT Can't Remember a F***ing Thing
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAWS Can't Remember Anything Worth A Sh**
CSL Can't Stop Laughing
CTC Choking The Chicken
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later
DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
DD Due Diligence
DDD Direct Distance Dial
DETI Don't Even Think It
DGT Don't Go There
DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**
DKDC Don't Know Don't Care
DLTM Don't Lie To Me
DQYDJ Don't Quit Your Day Job
DRIB Don't Read If Busy
DWYM Does What You Mean
DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing
EG Evil Grin
EOM End Of Message
ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator
EWI E-mailing While Intoxicated
F2F
FAB Features Attributes Benefits
FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat
FE Fatal Error
FF&PN Fresh Fields and Pastures New
FO F*** Off
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FRED F*#king Ridiculous Electronic Device
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster Than Light
FTTB For The Time Being
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FUBB F***ed Up Beyond Belief
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
FYIFV F*#k You I'm Fully Vested
FYM For Your Misinformation
GAL Get A Life
GG Good Game (or) Gotta Go
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GL Good Luck
GLYASDI God Loves You And So Do I
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GNBLFY Got Nothing But Love For You
GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking
GR8 Great
GRRRR it means Growling
GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
GTG Got To Go
GTGB Got To Go, Bye
GTGP Got To Go Pee
GTH Go To Hell
GTSY Glad To See Ya
GYPO Get Your Pants Off
HAGO Have A Good One
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HB Hurry Back
HD Hold
HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HIOOC Help! I'm Out of Coffee
HOHA HOllywood HAcker
HTH Hope This (or That) Helps
HUA Heads Up Ace
HUYA Head Up Your A**
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IAITS It's All In The Subject
IANAC I Am Not A Crook
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBT In Between Technology
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC In Character
ID10T Idiot
IDGAF I Don't Give A F***
IDGI I Don't Get It
IDK I Don't Know
IDKY I Don't Know You
IDST I Didn't Say That
IDTS I Don't Think So
IEF It's Esther's Fault
IFAB I Found A Bug
IFU I F***ed Up
IGGP I Gotta Go Pee
IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside
IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me
ILICISCOMK I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke On My Keyboard
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Messaging
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INMP It's Not My Problem
INPO In No Particular Order
IOH I'm Outta Here
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I Said So
ITM In The Money
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYSS If You Say So
J/C Just Checking
J/K Just Kidding!
J/W Just Wondering
JAFO Just Another F***ing Onlooker
JOOTT Just One Of Those Things
KFY Kiss For You
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMRIA Kiss My Royal Irish Arse
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYPO Keep Your Pants On
L8R Later
LAQ Lame Ass Quote
LD Long Distance
LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again
LIFO Last In First Out
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Luck (or Love)
LOPSOD Long On Promises, Short On Delivery
LRF Little Rubber Feet
LTIC Laughing 'Til I Cry
LTNS Long Time No See
LYL Love Ya Lots
LYLAS Love You Like A Sister
M8 or M8s Mate or Mates
MFD Multi-Function Device
MfG Mit freundlichen Gruessen
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MM Market Maker
MOO Mud, Object-Oriented
MorF Male or Female?
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
N/A Not Applicable -or- Not Affiliated
N/T No Text
NAK Nursing At Keyboard
NAZ Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
NBD No Big Deal
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NCG New College Graduate
NFI No F***ing Idea
NFW No F***ing Way
NG New Game
NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
NIM No Internal Message
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NIMQ Not In My Queue
NM Never Mind
NMP Not My Problem
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NQOCD Not Quite Our Class Dear
NRG Energy
NRN No Reply Necessary
NYCFS New York City Finger Saluet
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OBTW Oh By The Way
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OIC Oh, I see
OMDB Over My Dead Body
OMG Oh My Gosh
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
OOC Out Of Character
OOTB Out Of The Box -or- Out Of The Blue
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OS Operating System
OT Off Topic
OTOH On the Other Hand
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ stands for: Australia
PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff
PDOMA Pulled Directly Out Of My Ass
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLS Please
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PO Piss Off
PONA Person Of No Account
POV Point of View
R&D Research & Development
R&R Rest & Relaxation
RBTL Read Between The Lines
RFR Really F*#king Rich
RFS Really F*#king Soon
RKBA Right to Keep and Bear Arms
RL Real Life
RLF Real Life Friend
RMLB Read My Lips Baby
RMMM Read My Mail Man!
RN Right Now!
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTM Right On The Money
RSN Real Soon Now
RTBS Reason To Be Single
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
RTK Return To Keyboard
RTM or RTFM Read The Manual - or - Read The F*#king Manual
RU Are You?
RYO Roll Your Own
S2R Send To Receive
S4L Spam For Life
SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
SF Surfer Friendly
SH Sh** Happens
SITCOMs Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage
SITD Still In The Dark
SLIRK Smart Little Rich Kid
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SNAG Sensitive New Age Guy
SNERT Snotty Nosed Egotistical Rotten Teenager
SO Significant Other
SOL Sh** Out of Luck
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SorG Straight or Gay?
SSDD Same Sh** Different Day
STFU Shut The F*** Up
STM Spank The Monkey
STYS Speak To You Soon
SUYF Shut Up You Fool
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAK Sent (or Sealed) With A Kiss
SWDYT So What Do You Think?
TAH Take A Hike
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really F***ed Up
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
TFH Thread From Hell
TFN Thanks For Nothin'
THX or TX or THKS Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAIL Think I Am In Love
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLGO The List Goes On
TM Trust Me
TMI Too Much Information
TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It
TPC The Phone Company
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTT That's The Ticket -or- To The Top
TTYL Talk To You Later
TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit
TY Thank You
TYVM Thank You Very Much
unPC unPolitically Correct
URYY4M You Are Too Wise For Me
VC Venture Capital
VFM Value For Money
VM Voice Mail
VRBS Virtual Reality Bull Sh*t
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WAI What An Idiot
WAMBAM Web Application Meets Brick And Mortar
WB Welcome Back
WCA Who Cares Anyway
WDYS What Did You Say?
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WG Wicked Grin
WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***
WIIFM What's In It For Me?
WIT Wordsmith In Training
WITFITS What in the F*** is this Sh**
WOG Wise Old Guy
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WRT With Regard To
WTF What The F***
WTG Way To Go!
WTSDS Where The Sun Don't Shine
WYP What's Your Problem?
WYRN What's Your Real Name?
WYS Whatever You Say
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYSLPG What You See Looks Pretty Good
WYT Whatever You Think
YA Yet Another
YA yaya Yet Another Ya-Ya (as in yo-yo)
YACC Yet Another Calendar Company
YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
YDKM You Don't Know Me
YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'
YIC Yours In Christ
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YNK You Never Know
YOYO You're On Your Own
YR Yeah Right
YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
YTTT You Telling The Truth?
YYSSW Yeah Yeah Sure Sure Whatever



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Acronyms & Shorthand
Known as Chat Acronyms and E-mail Shorthand, these "abbreviations" are also used in Newsgroup Postings and IRC
Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture and now they are popular on the Internet to represent common phrases that people say to one another. Part of the reason they are used so much is because it's quicker and easier to type out a few letters, rather than typing out the full expression. They're also fun, but some can be naughty so watch out! To find out the meaning of a certain acronym, scroll down and look at it's corresponding phrase below.

BTW: If you ever see someone TYPING AN ENTIRE SENTENCE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS that means SHOUTING! It is not proper netiquette to TYPE IN ALL CAPS (even in e-mail), in fact, it's annoying. if you're in a hurry (or want to do what many people online already do), then type in all lower case, unless you want to imply that YOU ARE SHOUTING!

Got a favorite one you don't see here? Suggest an acronym!

2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be
4ever Forever
A/S/L Age/Sex/Location
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle
AISI As I See It
AKA or a.k.a. Also Known As
AMBW All My Best Wishes
ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word Word From Our Web Sponsor
AOAS All Of A Sudden
AOB Abuse Of Bandwidth
AP Apple Pie
ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATST At The Same Time
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Sh** Again
AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something
B4 Before
B4N Bye For Now
BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BCBS Big Company, Big School
BCNU Be Seein' You
BDC Big Dumb Company or Big Dot Com
BDN Big Damn Number
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
BIF Basis In Fact or Before I Forget
BITD Back In The Day
BM Byte Me
BMOTA Byte Me On The Ass
BNF Big Name Fan
BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BR Bathroom
BRB Be Right Back
BRT Be Right There
BS Big Smile
BT Byte This
BTA But Then Again or Before The Attacks
BTDT Been There Done That
BTSOOM Beats The Sh** Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BWDIK But What Do I Know?
BWO Black, White or Other
C/P Cross Post
CIAO Goodbye (in Italian)
CID Consider It Done
CIS CompuServe Information Service
CMF Count My Fingers
CofS Church of Scientology
CRAFT Can't Remember a F***ing Thing
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAWS Can't Remember Anything Worth A Sh**
CSL Can't Stop Laughing
CTC Choking The Chicken
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later
DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
DD Due Diligence
DDD Direct Distance Dial
DETI Don't Even Think It
DGT Don't Go There
DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**
DKDC Don't Know Don't Care
DLTM Don't Lie To Me
DQYDJ Don't Quit Your Day Job
DRIB Don't Read If Busy
DWYM Does What You Mean
DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing
EG Evil Grin
EOM End Of Message
ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator
EWI E-mailing While Intoxicated
F2F
FAB Features Attributes Benefits
FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat
FE Fatal Error
FF&PN Fresh Fields and Pastures New
FO F*** Off
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FRED F*#king Ridiculous Electronic Device
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster Than Light
FTTB For The Time Being
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FUBB F***ed Up Beyond Belief
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
FYIFV F*#k You I'm Fully Vested
FYM For Your Misinformation
GAL Get A Life
GG Good Game (or) Gotta Go
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GL Good Luck
GLYASDI God Loves You And So Do I
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GNBLFY Got Nothing But Love For You
GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking
GR8 Great
GRRRR it means Growling
GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
GTG Got To Go
GTGB Got To Go, Bye
GTGP Got To Go Pee
GTH Go To Hell
GTSY Glad To See Ya
GYPO Get Your Pants Off
HAGO Have A Good One
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HB Hurry Back
HD Hold
HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HIOOC Help! I'm Out of Coffee
HOHA HOllywood HAcker
HTH Hope This (or That) Helps
HUA Heads Up Ace
HUYA Head Up Your A**
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IAITS It's All In The Subject
IANAC I Am Not A Crook
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBT In Between Technology
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC In Character
ID10T Idiot
IDGAF I Don't Give A F***
IDGI I Don't Get It
IDK I Don't Know
IDKY I Don't Know You
IDST I Didn't Say That
IDTS I Don't Think So
IEF It's Esther's Fault
IFAB I Found A Bug
IFU I F***ed Up
IGGP I Gotta Go Pee
IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside
IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me
ILICISCOMK I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke On My Keyboard
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Messaging
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INMP It's Not My Problem
INPO In No Particular Order
IOH I'm Outta Here
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I Said So
ITM In The Money
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYSS If You Say So
J/C Just Checking
J/K Just Kidding!
J/W Just Wondering
JAFO Just Another F***ing Onlooker
JOOTT Just One Of Those Things
KFY Kiss For You
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMRIA Kiss My Royal Irish Arse
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYPO Keep Your Pants On
L8R Later
LAQ Lame Ass Quote
LD Long Distance
LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again
LIFO Last In First Out
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Luck (or Love)
LOPSOD Long On Promises, Short On Delivery
LRF Little Rubber Feet
LTIC Laughing 'Til I Cry
LTNS Long Time No See
LYL Love Ya Lots
LYLAS Love You Like A Sister
M8 or M8s Mate or Mates
MFD Multi-Function Device
MfG Mit freundlichen Gruessen
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MM Market Maker
MOO Mud, Object-Oriented
MorF Male or Female?
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
N/A Not Applicable -or- Not Affiliated
N/T No Text
NAK Nursing At Keyboard
NAZ Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
NBD No Big Deal
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NCG New College Graduate
NFI No F***ing Idea
NFW No F***ing Way
NG New Game
NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
NIM No Internal Message
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NIMQ Not In My Queue
NM Never Mind
NMP Not My Problem
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NQOCD Not Quite Our Class Dear
NRG Energy
NRN No Reply Necessary
NYCFS New York City Finger Saluet
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OBTW Oh By The Way
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OIC Oh, I see
OMDB Over My Dead Body
OMG Oh My Gosh
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
OOC Out Of Character
OOTB Out Of The Box -or- Out Of The Blue
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OS Operating System
OT Off Topic
OTOH On the Other Hand
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ stands for: Australia
PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff
PDOMA Pulled Directly Out Of My Ass
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLS Please
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PO Piss Off
PONA Person Of No Account
POV Point of View
R&D Research & Development
R&R Rest & Relaxation
RBTL Read Between The Lines
RFR Really F*#king Rich
RFS Really F*#king Soon
RKBA Right to Keep and Bear Arms
RL Real Life
RLF Real Life Friend
RMLB Read My Lips Baby
RMMM Read My Mail Man!
RN Right Now!
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTM Right On The Money
RSN Real Soon Now
RTBS Reason To Be Single
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
RTK Return To Keyboard
RTM or RTFM Read The Manual - or - Read The F*#king Manual
RU Are You?
RYO Roll Your Own
S2R Send To Receive
S4L Spam For Life
SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
SF Surfer Friendly
SH Sh** Happens
SITCOMs Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage
SITD Still In The Dark
SLIRK Smart Little Rich Kid
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SNAG Sensitive New Age Guy
SNERT Snotty Nosed Egotistical Rotten Teenager
SO Significant Other
SOL Sh** Out of Luck
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SorG Straight or Gay?
SSDD Same Sh** Different Day
STFU Shut The F*** Up
STM Spank The Monkey
STYS Speak To You Soon
SUYF Shut Up You Fool
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAK Sent (or Sealed) With A Kiss
SWDYT So What Do You Think?
TAH Take A Hike
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really F***ed Up
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
TFH Thread From Hell
TFN Thanks For Nothin'
THX or TX or THKS Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAIL Think I Am In Love
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLGO The List Goes On
TM Trust Me
TMI Too Much Information
TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It
TPC The Phone Company
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTT That's The Ticket -or- To The Top
TTYL Talk To You Later
TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit
TY Thank You
TYVM Thank You Very Much
unPC unPolitically Correct
URYY4M You Are Too Wise For Me
VC Venture Capital
VFM Value For Money
VM Voice Mail
VRBS Virtual Reality Bull Sh*t
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WAI What An Idiot
WAMBAM Web Application Meets Brick And Mortar
WB Welcome Back
WCA Who Cares Anyway
WDYS What Did You Say?
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WG Wicked Grin
WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***
WIIFM What's In It For Me?
WIT Wordsmith In Training
WITFITS What in the F*** is this Sh**
WOG Wise Old Guy
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WRT With Regard To
WTF What The F***
WTG Way To Go!
WTSDS Where The Sun Don't Shine
WYP What's Your Problem?
WYRN What's Your Real Name?
WYS Whatever You Say
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYSLPG What You See Looks Pretty Good
WYT Whatever You Think
YA Yet Another
YA yaya Yet Another Ya-Ya (as in yo-yo)
YACC Yet Another Calendar Company
YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
YDKM You Don't Know Me
YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'
YIC Yours In Christ
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YNK You Never Know
YOYO You're On Your Own
YR Yeah Right
YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
YTTT You Telling The Truth?
YYSSW Yeah Yeah Sure Sure Whatever



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[Penguin_101_1]

Oh: I typed all of those by hand. :lol:

I am a 20 Words per minute. :lol:

[arumdevil]

Calm down JD, I think that it is safe to say that TQ was merely pointing out what omg stfu n00b meant.

as far is linking posts, just find the post and paste the URL (uniform resource locater) and paste it into a message. The forum will automatically make it a link if it starts with http://

Vince

Yeah, I was a bit shocked for a few moments there, it took me a while to realize that he wasn't actually directing that at you New Shooter (i wouldn't expect that from timmy), but relax - i'm 99.9% sure (you never know right ;) ) he was just explaining the acronym.

[robertwgross]

Bokeh.


Besides the what the others have suggested, I would put a different spin on it. Bokeh is more of a state of mind. Normally, when you get a background nice and fuzzy, that sets the subject off better. However, it doesn't have to be a perfectly fuzzy background to be good. If you have a pretty bad lens, then you might get all sorts of vague fuzzy lines in the background, and if those distract the viewer from the subject, then that probably is bad. If you have a good normal lens, then you ought to be able to control the Depth of Field just right to get that calm background that just can't be described.

I shot a yellow flower that was mostly front-lit and side-lit, but then behind it was the darkness of a tree that had blue sky streaking through it. Due to the geometry of where the camera was and where the yellow flower was, the blue light showed up directly behind the flower as a blue blob. The blob wasn't enough to be distracting, but it put a nice piece of fuzzy color there, and other white highlights came through as little round light balls.

---Bob Gross---

[PacAce]

Oh: I typed all of those by hand. :lol:

I am a 20 Words per minute. :lol:

Ahem, back to our plagiaristic activities again, are we? ???

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Yes, yes, I know....another day of detention, right? :(

[ron chappel]

As allready said by many,Bokeh is a japanese term describing the out of focus parts of the photo (good,bad,yet another thing to argue about,etc)

The proper word is Boke but it has been anglesized to more represent the way it should be pronounced.
In japanese it used to apply only when describing a certain kind of dumb person but in modern times the word has been taken over by the japanese photography fraternity,and thence made it's way into the english vernacular

[Belmondo]

When you say 'bokeh' to a Nikon user, they think you are saying 'boquet.' This is not surprising because Nikon cameras do have an unusual aroma to them. They try to glamorize the smell by referring to it as boquet.

Just thought I should clear that up.

[Steveo31]

When you say 'bokeh' to a Nikon user, they think you are saying 'boquet.' This is not surprising because Nikon cameras do have an unusual aroma to them. They try to glamorize the smell by referring to it as boquet.

Just though I should clear that up.
:lol:

[DocFrankenstein]

Lenses: 17-40mm L, 28-200mm F4.5-5.6, EFS 18-55mm, Sigma 70-200mm
I'm a new shooter too. How come I only have 18-55? :shock:

[vfilby]

I am in the same boat as you Doc F, or will be in a day or two when my rebel arrives. I have to earn my camera gear. I actually am starting to get some income very small though. If I can pay for the rest of my rebel and a flash I would be ecstatic.

Until then I can only drool when I see the 17-40L sitting in the Black's showcase.

Vince

[Jesper]

Here is a good dictornary that explains photography terms: http://photonotes.org/dictionary/

Bokeh.

A term borrowed from the Japanese, pronounced with short vowels. (ie: more like French pronunciation - bo-ké - versus long English diphthongs - bow-kay.) Essentially bokeh, which is Japanese for blurring, refers to the quality of out of focus areas of a picture. Bokeh can be important for portraiture - you want out of focus areas behind the subject to be smooth and as non-distracting as possible. Highly patterned or sharp-edged areas don’t look as good.

Many factors in the design of the lens influence bokeh, which is in turn a pretty subjective concept. For example, lenses with very few aperture diaphragm leaves (perhaps 5) tend result in pentagonal out of focus highlights. Lenses with more aperture leaves (7 or 8 or more) tend to result in rounder out of focus highlights. This can affect bokeh under certain circumstances, though is by no means a guarantee of good bokeh.

Mirror lenses are notorious for bad bokeh - they have annular (ring or doughnut shaped) out of focus highlights and fine detail lines tend to appear as double lines. This form of bokeh, “cross-eyed” or “ni-sen bokeh,” (Japanese for two line bokeh) is one in which detail lines appear as blurry double lines.

cf. blur, DC, depth of field, mirror lens.

Entry last updated 2002-04-03.

Cross-eyed bokeh.

A type of bokeh in which thin lines image as double lines. Commonly seen with mirror (reflex or catadioptric) lenses.

Entry last updated 2002-04-24.

[Big_B]

When you say 'bokeh' to a Nikon user, they think you are saying 'boquet.' This is not surprising because Nikon cameras do have an unusual aroma to them. They try to glamorize the smell by referring to it as boquet.



:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :)

[Belmondo]

When you say 'bokeh' to a Nikon user, they think you are saying 'boquet.' This is not surprising because Nikon cameras do have an unusual aroma to them. They try to glamorize the smell by referring to it as boquet.



:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :)

Sorry, Big B. The devil made me do it.

Hope you saw my 'serious' post in the 'Nikophobes?' thread.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36974

[arumdevil]

When you say 'bokeh' to a Nikon user, they think you are saying 'boquet.' This is not surprising because Nikon cameras do have an unusual aroma to them. They try to glamorize the smell by referring to it as boquet.



:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :)

Sorry, Big B. The devil made me do it.

Hope you saw my 'serious' post in the 'Nikophobes?' thread.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36974


oy! stopping trying to get me in trouble ;)

[Big_B]

Sorry, Big B. The devil made me do it.

Hope you saw my 'serious' post in the 'Nikophobes?' thread.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36974


oy! stopping trying to get me in trouble ;)

Thats ok guys. I'm in a frightfully good mood today. Don't ask me why :D

[morenoar]

I am laughing my head off, reading this thread. You remind me not to take my ATTEMPT at photography to serious. Keep up the good work

[Tom W]

Sorry, Big B. The devil made me do it.

Hope you saw my 'serious' post in the 'Nikophobes?' thread.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36974


oy! stopping trying to get me in trouble ;)

Thats ok guys. I'm in a frightfully good mood today. Don't ask me why :D

That's because you're among Canon users - the friendliest bunch in photography.

I've made it my personal goal to add "Canon" to your signature. :)

[Kevin M]

I have been shooting theatre, opera, and ballet professionally for close on forty years. My only requirement of a lens was that it be fast and sharp. The quality of the out-of-focus area has never bothered me one way or the other and it has certainly never been mentioned by a client.

[Big_B]

I've made it my personal goal to add "Canon" to your signature. :)

I have a small confession to make... I do actually own a point and shoot Canon :oops: . It’s a fantastic camera but as a point and shoot wasn't flexible enough to take the kind of photos that I want to take. Indeed I've used Canons all my life until I got my Pentax SLR and from there to my Nikon.

Some people might suggest that I'd graduated from Canon to Nikon.... but I wouldn't be that fatuous. 8) :lol:

BB

[robvonk]

Another nice link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

[nosquare2003]

I've made it my personal goal to add "Canon" to your signature. :)

I have a small confession to make... I do actually own a point and shoot Canon :oops: . It’s a fantastic camera but as a point and shoot wasn't flexible enough to take the kind of photos that I want to take. Indeed I've used Canons all my life until I got my Pentax SLR and from there to my Nikon.

Some people might suggest that I'd graduated from Canon to Nikon.... but I wouldn't be that fatuous. 8) :lol:

BB


I'm planning to get a small compact camera some time later. And it doesn't have to be Canon. If I've got a Nikon, can you say that I'd graduated from Canon DSLR to Nikon compact digicam?

[Big_B]

Of course :D

[nosquare2003]

Nope... I will still use the Canon ones even if I get the Nikon. Since I've got CANon first and then nikON later, I still be a CANON user.

[Big_B]

LOL! very clever