![]() Shrinking the aperture increases the DoF, rendering more of the image in focus. Excessive blur can be toned down by increasing the f-stop. This is why one tends to want lenses with the widest aperture possible when trying to create soft bokeh. The more objects in the image become out of focus the softer the bokeh becomes. Check out Dave’s DoF article about how it affects story telling, or Shelly’s Depth of Field Basics). The wider you can open the aperture blades on your lens the narrower your depth of field becomes (the range in which objects are in focus, aka DoF. By putting a stencil in front of the lens we can change the shape of the bokeh. Most of the time, the bokeh is made up of many circles of different sizes. The intensity of blur can be controlled by adjusting the apperture on your lens (f-stop). Bokeh definition: A trick in photography where one part of the photo is in focus and the rest isn't, so attention is drawn to the subject. Blur intensity is manipulated in a few different ways. Conversely, less blur means sharper details and a rougher bokeh. In photography, bokeh ( BOH-k or BOH-kay Japanese: boke) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. As the blur becomes stronger, the details in the image blend together and the bokeh becomes softer and smoother. The first way to manipulate the texture of the blur in your image (hereafter referred to as “bokeh”), is to have stronger or weaker blur. I find this a little more descriptive than “the aesthetic quality of the blur,” which is the other common, and slightly vague, definition. ![]() A technical definition is “the way a lens renders points of light.” I like to describe it as the texture of the blurry bits in a photo. Adding to this with my own subjective judgements about what is good and bad bokeh would a waste of our time, so I’ve tried to keep this as informative as possible without trying to influence you too much with “dos and don’ts.” What is bokeh?īokeh is simply the way the blurry bits of your photo look. What I discovered is that most articles written about bokeh end up offering around 90 percent personal opinion about what good and bad bokeh looks like. But I was curious about this mysterious and slightly snooty sounding word and what it meant, so I started paying attention to photos and reading some articles. A couple of years ago I may have squinted sideways at anyone who went on about it. Just trying to pronounce the word can be intimidating.
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