Lupins

[Craftysnapper]

One from today taken with the Olympus Pen E-P5 and the wonderful 75mm f/1.8 taken wide open at f1.8. 

Or as Fuji would say who says you cannot do shallow dof with fourthirds.

 

[ChrisLumix]

One from today taken with the Olympus Pen E-P5 and the wonderful 75mm f/1.8 taken wide open at f1.8. 

Or as Fuji would say who says you cannot do shallow dof with fourthirds.

​Indeed...

[EdwardL]

Nice light on the lupins

[Guest]

Nice light on the lupins

​Thank you.

[Phonantiphon]

They look lovely!

And you absolutely can do shallow DOF with (micro) 4/3!!

[Guest]

They look lovely!

And you absolutely can do shallow DOF with (micro) 4/3!!

​Thank you and indeed you can and as in Chris's example the smaller the flower and the closer you get the easier it is.

In the case of the lupins the flowers are 18 inches long so to fit them in I was about 5 feet away from them so not so easy, the 75mm (150mm eq) f1.8 is what I usually use for throwing the backgrounds in portraits out of focus, but in this case it was good choice for very large flowers.

[ChrisLumix]

​Thank you and indeed you can and as in Chris's example the smaller the flower and the closer you get the easier it is.

In the case of the lupins the flowers are 18 inches long so to fit them in I was about 5 feet away from them so not so easy, the 75mm (150mm eq) f1.8 is what I usually use for throwing the backgrounds in portraits out of focus, but in this case it was good choice for very large flowers.

​My Lumix 4/3 has a fixed lens, but it's f1.7 at wideangle (24mm) so it's easy to get good bokeh.

[Guest]

​My Lumix 4/3 has a fixed lens, but it's f1.7 at wideangle (24mm) so it's easy to get good bokeh.

Mmmm Chris I will not go into how focal length, aperture, distance from subject and distance of the background from the subject (in my case the background was 6 to 8 feet behind the subject) effects out of focus background, but I could do the same pic and framing on my 17mm f1.8 and 75mm f1.8 to show you the difference in rendered backgrounds.

[ChrisLumix]

Mmmm Chris I will not go into how focal length, aperture, distance from subject and distance of the background from the subject (in my case the background was 6 to 8 feet behind the subject) effects out of focus background, but I could do the same pic and framing on my 17mm f1.8 to show you the difference.

​No, I get the picture thanks Paul. It's just that Lumix usually put their macro at full wideangle as that's where you can get closest to the subject and where the widest aperture is. I could use macro zoom at (equivalent) 75mm, but the aperture is only f2.8 there.