Bokeh (Japanese "boke" = blur or haze) is how the lens draws unsharp image areas. The effect becomes notable when the unsharp back- and/or foreground has significant contrasts, especially when small light areas contrast to darker surroundings.
Bokeh (derived from Japanese boke ぼ', a noun form of bokeru ぼ'る, "become blurred or fuzzy") is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.
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It's part of what constitutes "Bokeh" (a Japanese term meaning something like "fuzzy", but not necessarily in a photographic context!).
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Note, sometimes 'bokeh' will also be spelt as 'brokeh' by those not fully familiar with the term. 'Bokeh' is what you can achieve with a prime lens.
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Bokeh is the English form of the Japanese word boke, which means blur. It refers to how out-of-focus parts of a photo look.
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Bokeh refers to the technique of blurring an image to add to the aesthetic quality of a photograph. The word bokeh, derived from the Japanese word "boke" (pronounced "bo-keh"), literally translates to ‘fuzziness'.
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What Is Bokeh?
Bokeh is essentially blur. Many people take it as referring to the out-of-focus area of a photograph, which can be impacted and enhanced by sources of light and color behind the subject.
Bokeh or boke is a Japanese term that describes the quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image. It should not be confused with the simple amount of blur in an image.
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Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. Differing amounts of spherical aberration alter how lenses render out-of-focus points of light, and thus their bokeh.
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What is bokeh?
A term borrowed from the Japanese, pronounced with short vowels.
Bokeh describes the quality of out-of-focus background in an image. High quality bokeh is a much sought after characteristic. Learn what effects bokeh, as well as what it is and what it is not.
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Note that Bokeh is not just about background blur but more specifically about the quality of that blur.
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Lately there were lots of discussions in the photo newsgroups about the "Bokeh".
I like the smooth bokeh here, altho I think you still could have achieved it with a smaller aperture (say f/8 or even f/11) and also obtained a bit more detail on the subjects...as the wisteria is situated far enough in front of the background.
Second, and perhaps most importantly, a wide aperture will provide a nice clean background (bokeh), and allow your subject to really stand out. Even with these fast apertures, you will usually need to use an ISO speed of 400, 800, or even 1600.
This means that fast and precise focusing is critical, bad bokeh has a really unpleasant effect on most pictures, and you'll be shooting your lens wide-open most of the time, to minimize camera shake.
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It is very hard to get good background blur ("bokeh") with a point and shoot.
More expensive lenses often have more blades or rounded blades, which produce more pleasing bokeh. If the lens is used wide open then no blades are involved and the lens will produce a nice image with shallow depth of field and pleasing bokeh.
Blur A way of softening an image or part of an image. Bokeh The effect of a soft out of focus background that you get when shooting a subject, usually a portrait using a fast lens at the widest aperture such as f/2.8 or wider.
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Also, some p&s do some good bokeh, if they have big apertures, even with a small sensor. Panasonic FZ-20, 6mm-72mm (36mm-420mm 35mm equiv), F2.8 through all the range.
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A shallow depth of field can deliver the soft 'bokeh' background that is the signature of SLR photography, by contrast a larger depth of field can be useful for getting more of the image in focus.
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It is very hard to blur background, also known as "bokeh", when using a point and shoot camera. And so, digital SLR's come in handy when this effect is needed in the picture.
Similarly, if the photographer wishes to take a portrait in which the subject is clear, but the background is characterized by "bokeh" (an appealing and artistic blur), then a very low f-stop number is in order.
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