Bokeh is the out of focus or blurry areas of a photograph. The wider the aperture a camera is shooting on, the softer the Bokeh is. In this cool DIY video, Matt from Make Magazine, shows an easy way to add a little flair to your pictures by creating custom shapes for your bokeh. Although everyone seems to break out this technique with stars and hearts around Christmas time, as Christmas lights are a great light source for this technique, here are a few more creative examples.
Or, If you'd like a little more extreme example, Gramatik uses the effect in their dubstep video "Solidified"
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Bokeh is the out of focus or blurry areas of a photograph" I'm glad you wrote this. too many people seem to think that Bokeh only refers to out of focus lights.
Except it's still wrong, bokeh refers to the aesthetics of the blurred area, it's not the existance of blur.
I suppose every source regarding to the subject of Bokeh is wrong, too? right? let me bow down in your presence, oh omniscient one.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm theres one, want more?
you're going to quote Ken Rockwell!? pah! cya later.
You were doing OK until you decided to quote Ken Rockwell, what blew your cred Jimmy Boy...
Did you folks even read KR's piece? It's actually one of the much better explanations of bokeh, and lacks the usual Amazon/BH/D40+18-55 plugs.
What's up with Ken Rockwell... do you find him not knowledgeable or too promotion oriented.
Again..
http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspiration/40-beautiful-examples-of-bokeh-...
To drive the point home..
https://www.google.ca/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=3&sourceid=chrome&...
LoL :)) EPIC fail quoting... I don't care what definition is, as long as it's a good pic with or without 'BOKEH' then so be it :p
Not really a new technique - I remember getting a set of these "filters" (IIRC they were meant to be used in the Cokin A filter holder) free with a magazine in the early to mid 90s.
But still interesting to see it make a bit of a comeback recently.
Westcott makes Titanium Hand Punch Craft tools that make cleaner shaped cuts, so that you don't get the "fuzzies" like you see in the above sax image.
https://mills-store.basics.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10552_1...
http://beattie.basics.com/product.htm?Product=57077-00&Source=Catego...
This is a video that I made with the technique, love to know what you guys think!
https://vimeo.com/21172373