Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Good Photos Challenge Day 26 - Bokeh

When I saw that the challenge for today was "bokeh", first impression was easy peasy since I thought we were talking slang for "bouquet" as in this vase full of pink dogwood, lilacs, and japanese maple leaves:


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!

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2 comments:

  1. Jan n JerAugust 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    Faye...you are really learning alot...Bokeh is my fave kind of shot...n you achieved it! YAY!

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  2. FayeAugust 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    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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