My friend Abby is a great photographer partly because she has a great eye for composition. Also, she tries new things all the time, and most of all because she take lots and lots of pictures and doesn’t seem to feel inhibited when pulling her camera out in public. Lots of people are inhibited and their work suffers from the lack of practice.
This photo is a great example of bokeh, a Japanese term referring to the “aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.” Yeah, the Wikipedia helped me out with that one. This differs from the simple depth-of-field example I used last week because bokeh refers specifically to the out-of-focus area. Abby’s photo below uses a shallow depth of field to achieve bokeh in both the foreground and background of the in-focus area:
Another, more exaggerated example of bokeh in action is this photo below by locksmith in aylesbury, which has no area in focus at all. However, these are still identifiable as M&Ms, or at least believable as such. The main subject of the photo is clear, even if significantly out of focus:
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5:32 pm on September 23rd, 2009
In reading your blog, I have learned that I am awesome! You know what’s crazy? I have moved into a new apartment recently which just happens to be next door to the house where I took this picture! It’s a really fancy house, and I had no idea there was a duplex next door. And now I know! Thanks, Carl!
10:01 am on September 24th, 2009
Abby, I am glad you finally realized that you are awesome because you really are.