The following example, to prove my point, was captured with my 6×6 Medium Format Yashica A on Kodak Ektar 100. However, you can get sharp images throughout the frame with any kind of camera. The following image wouldn’t have that “pop” with all the other blossoms being in focus as well.Ī Smartphone will never allow you to achieve this effect without severe effort in post processing (although newer smartphones, often sporting a multitude of cameras, will get you something similar through software). Wouldn’t that be really distracting from the subject?)īeing able to isolate the subject from the background becomes incredibly important in macro photography too. (Imagine how these photographs would look if you could make out all the details in the background. ![]() Check out his 100 Strangers project to see how this works for classic portraits. One photographer who really puts this technique to great use in his street photography is Neil Winch. Through blurring the background, bokeh can also help to emphasize the subject, make it stand out more in the image. In the example below, the background (grass) was deliberately rendered unsharp to eliminate distraction potential. I guess we can all agree that images that are completely unsharp (out of focus) very rarely look good, but there’s something that keeps drawing a lot of people to photographs where a specific part of the image is “lost” in blur. Why would somebody want anything to not be sharp in their images anyways? They are getting better at this with every year, but computer programs won’t be able to beat physics. ![]() Modern smartphones employ artificial intelligence to digitally alter the portraits captured in order to blur the background. With smartphone photography taking over the world of digital imaging – the top 5 most used “cameras” on Flickr are smartphones – we are getting used to pictures looking sharp across the entire frame (I’ll explain the technicalities behind that later on). In photography, anything that is not in focus, could be considered bokeh (blurry). It has been taken over into the English language with an -h added to the end, to help with the pronunciation: Bokeh. Lastly, boke also means “blurry” or “deliberately out of focus”. Originally, among other meanings, boke is an insult and means stupid, clueless or unaware, but it’s also the name of the japanese quince, a fruit. In case you don’t want to go there to read about it, here’s the original definition of the term: Boke is Japanese: ボケ I already did some explaining on this in my last comparison where I looked at bokeh balls. ![]() If you find anything amiss or would like me to add something specific, please feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments.Įvery photographer has heard the term “bokeh” at least once and most have an idea of its meaning, or at least an image of what bokeh is supposed to “look like” materializes in their head. When I recently stumbled over this draft, I decided to publish it as is. Note from the author: I started the first draft for this blog post many years ago and somehow forgot that I never actually published it.
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