I'm a complete newby. I only really started taking photos at the start of this year when I began this project. I'm absolutely loving it and feel as if I'm developing as a photographer every day. However there are numerous terms that I'm really unfamiliar with...bokeh being one of them! Is it a technique? Is it something added to the camera? Is it something which just kind of happens on occasion which there's no way of producing every time and it's just a happy accident? This is an alternative to the photo I uploaded for the 365project pic of the day. Is this bokeh??
This article is about the photographic usage of the term "Bokeh". For other uses, see Bokeh (disambiguation).
Coarse bokeh on a photo shot with an 85mm lens and 70mm aperture, which corresponds to f/1.2
In photography, bokeh (Japanese pronunciation: [boke][1][2]) is the blur,[3][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,[4][5][6] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."[7] Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.[3] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas.[3] However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.
@indiannie_jones@nikkers Hey, thankyou both of you. It's nice to know I can manage some photographic techniques without expensive add ons to my cheap little point and shoot :o)xx
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This article is about the photographic usage of the term "Bokeh". For other uses, see Bokeh (disambiguation).
Coarse bokeh on a photo shot with an 85mm lens and 70mm aperture, which corresponds to f/1.2
In photography, bokeh (Japanese pronunciation: [boke][1][2]) is the blur,[3][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,[4][5][6] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."[7] Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.[3] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas.[3] However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh