Home Forums Gear Photography Yellowston National Park, a few images.

I'm not 100% sure what you're referring to, but I think I know.

We're NOT talking about the backlight elk picture, but the other one correct?

On that picture there was a small hill I was shooting over, and that's the extremely out of focus grass in the foreground. Then there's a small depression in the terrain (out of sight of course), and the elk is lying on the other side of the small valley.

That severly out of focus grass in the foreground is almost right in front of the camera, which is why it looks that way.

Is that what you were referring to?

... See my above response, but in reading it again I'm not sure what you're asking me?

Elevation changes in the forefround.

Background blur=Bokeh.

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

And just for fun,
http://www.lensbabies.com/

Not sure if that helps I think I was posting the same time as VTi.

You answered, that was the picture I was looking at.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/rdebernardi/Web_0J1T0859.jpg


The bush in the right of the pic appears to be at about the same distance as the blurry grass in the foreground but is in focus while the fore and back ground grass are out of focus. For some reason it, until I now see it as a hill in front, looked odd to me. My eye was expecting the grass in front of the animal to be in focus also. The "bush or tree" in the right front is playing with my eye......

Stetson that "lensbabies" looks like it would give a very similar effect to what I thought I was seeing.

Yea, that's correct. THat tree/bush is actually right at the elk's side, not in the foreground.