Wide Bokeh

What is inside

• Iris Bladefor a frame shot wide open: midtone contrast carries the in-focus plane while clarity stays negative, so the grade adds no edge outlines to the out-of-focus wash
• Aperture Washa preset cannot smooth a wash, only decline to roughen one, so the local-contrast controls sit under zero here and the tone work is done by the curve
• Pupil Roundholds the colour of the out-of-focus area instead of pushing it, with the green and aqua bands pulled back so a leafy background stays quiet behind the subject
• Blade Curvebuilt for a fast portrait aperture where the subject plane is thin: highlights rolled off so the brightest part of the wash keeps its gradation
• Entrance Pupila straightforward read of a wide-open frame, with a positive vignette opening the corners the aperture already darkened
• Diaphragm Curlfor a frame whose background is all specular points: whites pulled under zero so those points keep their shape rather than clipping to white discs
• Barrel Turnkeeps the subject plane legible without asking clarity to do it, since clarity would find edges in the wash as readily as on the subject
• Fast Elementfor glass that is already contrasty wide open: modest contrast, negative texture, and the blue band darkened to seat the background

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