In photography, “bokeh” is the “blur”, or “the aesthetic quality of the blur” in the out-of-focus areas of an image. The term comes from the Japanese language and means “blur” or “haze”.
An aesthetic background makes your subject stand-out and makes your image all the more appealing. Three things that can help you create bokeh :
- use a telephoto lens or a macro lens
- open up the lens (use a low f-stop – f5.6 or less)
- get as close to your subject as possible – the depth of field is reduced the closer you are to your subject
- make sure the background is as far behind your subject as possible
Here I used a 60 mm macro lens and was no more than 20 cm from the subject. The background was a good 5 metres behind the subject. The aperture was set at f 5.6.
Click here to see some more examples
Check out this “Bokeh Challenge“
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