![]() ![]() I have a book of early 20th Century photographs by Edward Steichen, in which it might only be one small detail of a portrait subject that is in sharp focus-one plane of the face, a lace collar, an eye, a button or watch chain-the rest of the person's form is in softer focus and the surroundings are in what we'd now call bokeh. It seems to me, bokeh is what you do, if you are fortunate, with the light in the image that isn't focusing attention on the main subject matter, when precise detail of the surrounding environment is not required or when the surrounding detail would distract from the main subject. Yes, there is an aesthetic quality (of some range of kinds) to "bokeh," but, on the other hand, some other blur is just BLAHHHGH. It is a bonus of digital that we can observe the bokeh in our up and coming shot. It is a defining feature of old plate photography and we lost a lot of it when the world went 35mm. So a highlighty bokeh will work with some subjects and a supersmooth with others.īokeh may be a fashionable term but the use of dof blur to enhance an image has been around forever. I take bokeh to mean "The quality of blur in oof areas" which defines it from blur. I can't help but stay away from anything too fashionableĢ) the same word seems to mean different things to different people, i never know what kind of optical characteristics are implied when someone says that a certain lens has "nice bokeh"Īs i always try to learn from those who know more than i do, and also try to be of some use to the newcomers, i've decided to use a few more words and do my best to explain plain and simple why i like a certain lens and how such lens performs if we start to widen the concept of bokeh, any photography of a non flat surface with some areas out of focus would qualify as "bokeh picture"!īTW, i dislike the word bokeh, and try not to use it.ġ) bokeh is a "fashionable" word in photographic circles, let's face it. I'm not saying it's blasphemy, i'm just pointing out that, with all due respect. Of course i've read countless posts that explicitly or implicitly regard the concept of "bokeh" the same way you do. AFAIK the accepted definition of BOKEH refers to highlights, but.
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