Not so fast, photographer! Bokeh is Japanese for blurring, out of focus. In photography it takes a much more powerful lens than my point and shoot camera has, plus some skilled manipulation of light to achieve that perfectly blurred background around a clearly defined focal image. Here's my accidental bokeh of a japanese maple whirligig:
And then this photo of a falling autumn leaf is true bokeh. The photographer was Jesse Kruger, not me!
2 comments:
Faye...you are really learning alot...Bokeh is my fave kind of shot...n you achieved it! YAY!
janis--my almost bokeh was truly an accident. I've seen examples of bokeh where you have different shapes--stars, hearts, flowers, lights--floating across the blurred background. Achieved by taping a cutout of the shape over camera lens and then shooting in stages. I tried that and just got blurred Willie in a star cutout.
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