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Bokeh describes the quality of the out-of-focus area of an image, but in today’s vernacular, people talk about it as if it’s just the out of focus area and that’s all. Manufacturers have lead consumers to do nothing else but compare the bokeh of one lens to another in side by side comparisons. And truly, who cares? Photographers: here’s the honest fact. People who look at your images are instead staring at what’s in focus instead. For that, there’s a more important thing to think about: Micro contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Micro contrast has more to do with how the subject pops out of the bokeh. It can be achieved with strategic lighting to give a 3D look and further separation by using hair lights and other things. But when you’re doing it organically with natural light, it’s totally different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Micro contrast is best delivered using a special type of lens — at least in my experience. Those lenses are Apochromatic lenses. And typically you see them made by Leica, Voigtlander, Zeiss, Hasselblad, and Laowa. These lenses are specifically designed to make the in-focus subject pop more and be far more separated out from the background. If you combine this with underexposing the scene a bit more or high speed sync flash, your subject will majorly pop also due to how specular highlights and overpowering ambient lighting works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, you could do this by adding more clarity and contrast in post-production — but it still won’t really give the same effect. At any given focal length, a 50mm f2 Apochromatic is bound to have more of a pop than a 50mm f1.4 non-apochromatic lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you really want to have a unique lens and a beautiful look to the image, consider more about how the lens is designed. And personally speaking, I’d probably only reach for Apochromatic lenses. My Leica 28mm f2 is my personal favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following photos are all shot with Apochromatic lenses over the Phoblographer’s years of testing cameras, lenses, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bokeh describes the quality of the out-of-focus area of an image, but in today’s vernacular, people talk about it as if it’s just the out of focus area and that’s all. Manufacturers have lead consumers to do nothing else but compare the bokeh of one lens to another in side by side comparisons. And truly, who cares? Photographers: here’s the honest fact. People who look at your images are instead staring at what’s in focus instead. 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He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind.\/ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like \"Secret Order of the Slice.\" PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. 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