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All about bokeh photography

Date Added: January 08, 2010 11:12:57 AM

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Bokeh – one of the famous words in the Photography world. The word “bokeh” comes from the Japanese word “boke” (pronounced bo-keh) which literally means fuzziness or dizziness. Bokeh is said to describe the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. If sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus, then bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus.

Essentially, bokeh is a qualitative measure of light distortion in the out-of-focus areas of an image, and is primarily caused by lens aberrations and aperture shape (wikipedia). This is important to know when achieving bokeh in your photography.

In this article, I will cover the following:

Bokeh and Depth of Field (DOF)

I’ve seen this happen in photography forums where one may look at an image and comment that it has a nice bokeh, but in reality it just has a nice shallow DOF. I think all photographers had mistakenly confused the two together at some point in their career. I know I’ve done it. ALL of us have done it. So what’s the difference?

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