I assume you’ve seen the word Bokeh before? At some point. People loooove to throw it around. Like me I do! 🙂
“Bokeh (derived from Japanese boke ã¼ã’, a noun form of bokeru ã¼ã’ã‚‹, “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.”
Sooo really it means the fuzzy stuff in the background of pictures! 🙂 Like in this one. You can see it easily in this one. All those little circles on the left side – Bokeh!
One of the great things about Christmas lights is getting cool bokeh from your tree lights!
See this picture is pretty… but no bokeh.
Want me to teach you how to take some bokeh? GREAT 🙂 This is NOT going to be in photographic talk. (well unless we use the word Bokeh… but we can now since we already discussed that right! 😉 )
The first thing is that you need to take off your automatic focus. It needs to be in manual. Then you put it out of focus so much that small circles appear. Then you take a picture.
small bokeh
f 9.0 1/8 ss
ISO 500
See how this one is lighter? Cause I was shooting more wide open with my aperture.
f 2.8 1/8 ss
ISO 500
Medium Bokeh
f 4.0 1/8 ss
ISO 500
This one is the same as number 2 it is just zoomed in more, and the viola bigger circles.
BIG bokeh
f 2.8 1/8 ss
ISO 500
Does that make sense??
And wanna try some and show them to me?