Getting good bokeh from 18-200mm lens?
Not being sure if the EXIF data is attached, this was 112mm @ f/5.6, 1/400 s at ISO 100. I was only a few feet from the pike, but the castle was quite far away. Plenty of blur, but not incredibly so.
95 mm @ f/5.3, 1/250 s at ISO 3200. The table of candles was only perhaps 6 or 8 ft long, but you can see that the far flames begin to do what you want in good bokeh. (The focal point is the candle more or less in the middle, with its wick right in front of another taller candle.
42mm @ f/4.5, 1/1600 s at ISO 400. In this shot of a friend the background is nicely separated, but you can still tell where we are. I was only a few feet in front of my friend on a narrow foot bridge; you can see me and the other tourists reflected in her glasses. I should have switched lenses to get a better portrait.
For comparison, here's a shot using my Tamron 28-74 f/2.8 lens. 75mm @ f/2.8, 1/200 s at ISO 800. I was only a few feet away from the statue, and the wall was not far behind, less distance than between me and the subject. And yet with the wider aperture one can get a shallow DoF and a reasonably blurry background. It only gets better the more control you have over the environment.
I hope this little tour has been helpful.
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