TheĬontrast between the dark, alien form of the spider with the softly litīackground and delicate webbing makes for a wonderfully pleasing contrast. This shot has a clearly recognisable subject and goodĬomposition, but it’s the lighting and bokeh that really make it. It doesn’tĪlways have to be so ostentatious either, if that’s not your thing: A recognisable subject with effective back-lighting and bokeh Home, makes you feel a particular way that’s what this evokes for me. For me it’s a kind of warmth,īeing in the car when it’s raining and travelling somewhere, even if it’s going

In this way has encapsulated such a tone to it. The bokeh? I personally don’t think so, but using the rain and outside lights Would it have worked if outside was in focus, without Should give you a particular feeling when you see it: Certain uses of bokeh can evoke a particular feeling Īlthough recognisable, I wouldn’t say this image fits into It doesn’t even have to be recognisable but it Mental haze mean? Well, for me it’s a picture using bokeh in such a way Of bokeh goodness because of all the lights! Bokeh as a Mental Hazeīack to the phrase I mentioned at the start. High spots make great vantage points and cities are a wealth Cities are great for bokeh due to all the lights! So really play around with those settings The lens you use will affect the kind of bokeh you This shot has probably been taken thousands of times but I love this technique you can tell what something is, like this bridge, but it’s a completely different take on the subject:īokeh can be used in such a way that the subject is still recognisable Lights is a great, cheap option – I’d recommend the battery kind. Outside shots are great but if you’d like to try it indoors, a string of fairy

Natural light works really well for this so This can be achieved in-camera, or by adding a texture In this way, bokeh can really add to a photo by giving it aĭifferent slant. We’ve all seen the picture of the cup where bokeh is used to represent steam rising from the cup:īokeh rising from a cup as if steam is a popular use I’ve seen bokeh used to great effect in aiding the concept of a photograph. The Japanese definition of bokeh includes another, deeper, meaning: ‘mental haze.’ This is a beautifullyĪccurate definition when you consider how integral bokeh can be when telling Quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced byĪ lens.' On a technical level, that’s exactly what it is but it’s also so These two ideas are so strong Wikipedia describes bokeh (or boke) as 'the aesthetic When most people think about bokeh, they think of two things: a technical property of lenses and visual property of composition.

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