Bokeh

Bokeh is another style of photography which makes more conceptive and creative. Bokeh is from a Japanese word "boke" which means "blur" or "haze". Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produd by a lens. The differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape caus 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. It occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to createimages with prominen out-of-focus regions.

Boken is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular eflections and light sources, which is why is often associated with such areas. However, it is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.

How to do Bokeh?

Now, the question is: how to do it? Here are some steps to do bokeh in photography:

• All lenses can create some kind of bokeh, but the really nice, drool-worthy bokeh is from prime lenses with large apertures or fast lenses, like f/1.4 and f/1.8. The larger the aperture (the smaller the number of aperture), a narrower depth of field and more bokeh. Usually, f/2.8, f/1.8, f/1.4 create the best results.
• You will want to shoot with the lens wide open, so you will want to use a shooting mode of Aperture Priority or Manual. Manual gives you the ability to choose both your aperture and shutter speed. Aperture Priority allows you to choose f/stop while the camera chooses the appropriate shutter speed for the exposure.
• To increase the likehood of visible bokeh in your photographs, increase the distance of between your subject and the background, or decreasing the distance of the camera and the subject. The more shallow the depth-of-field, or further the background is, the more out-of-focus it will be.