![]() The number of blades of the diaphragm and the aperture used also affects the quality of the bokeh. (Image credit: Armin Kübelbeck on Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA). Typical donuts shaped point of lights from using a mirror lens. Mirror lenses (catadioptrics) are a typical example of weird (for some, bad) bokeh, as the point of lights are rendered as donuts rather than circles. Sure, I could make my son stand out more, but the blur I had on the background is not creamy, and there are plenty of distracting elements.Īnd if you look at how points of light are blurred, some lenses will give you nice round, smooth circles while others can render the point of lights with odd shapes. Particularly in portrait photography, photographers associate the quality of a lens bokeh to how “creamy” the blurred background looks like, that is how smooth it looks.Ī bad bokeh is a blurred background that still has some details in it, although smudged: light tree twigs, edges, etc. For this still life, I blurred the background to create a nice bokeh by blurring the lights on my Xmas tree I had in the background. By blurring them, you make them so big that they become crucial background elements. (Image credit: Unsplash)īut bokeh can also be used for crafting creative images by blurring points of lights present in the background. (Image credit: GoodFon) What Is The Bokeh Effect?īokeh can be used to help separate your model from the background. A nice Bokeh is crucial in macrophotography. The resulting effect can be pleasant or not.Īnd this (below) is bokeh. ![]() Increasing the distance between your model and background also increases the background blurriness. This technique is most often used in portraiture and can be achieved in many ways: by increasing the size of the lens aperture (smaller f-numbers), by choosing the focal length in relation to the camera-to-subject and subject-to-background distances.įor example, for a given camera-to-subject and subject-to-background distances, a wider aperture increases the blurring of the background when the focus is on your model. Here I have intentionally blurred the background to make it a bit distracting and to better isolate my daughter from the rest of the scene, making her stand out more. (Image credit: Unsplash) What Is The Difference Between Bokeh And Background Blur?īlurring the background is a common technique used to add depth to your image and let your target stand out more. Remember: in photography, bokeh is a creative effect you intentionally introduce in the image, either by shooting in a particular way or using a particular lens. Sometimes, bokeh is also referred to as the way the lens displays out-of-focus points of lights. In this image, the background is clearly out of focus, but that is a very poor bokeh effect and is very distracting. The two aspects are related but are not the same. If we got you interested in taking bokeh photos, you can check out DigitalRev video below on how to ‘do’ bokeh. If you are a fan of photography and image processing you can check out our article on the name origin of the Adobe software company, too.Bokeh is a Japanese term that can be translated as Blur.īut a bokeh is not so much about having a blurred background as it is about the aesthetic quality of the blurring. You can see some examples below (photos are taken by Margarit Ralev): However, the effect is also used as a cool trick to play with brightness and lights. The h transforms the pronunciation into ˈboʊkɛ or ˈboʊkeɪ.īokeh is usually used as an effect to draw attention to one thing in the photo (the one on focus). However, an h was added at the end to help pronouncing the word correctly, because unlike in Japanese, the word boke in English would normally be pronounced as b əʊk, like coke, shoke, poke etc. It is said that the term bokeh derives from the transliteration of the Japanese word into English as boke. I couldn’t find information on when the word was first used as a photographic term. The word translates as blur, haze, however, in the right context can also be used as mental haze, craziness, senility. ![]() The word origin comes from the Japanese word ボケ which should be read as bo-ke. So what does bokeh mean and what is the word origin? But as you can notice the term “bokeh” doesn’t sound English. When an object is on focus and everything else is not, the part of the photo that is outside the depth of field becomes blurry. Usually, the effect is visible for photos with small Depth of field or shallow focus. Bokeh is a very interesting photographic effect that shows up on those parts of a photo that are out-of-focus. ![]()
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