Bokeh

"Bokeh, The Snow White of photography. Bokeh is the fairest of them all. Bokeh is like a Jewel, it is different from all the rest." -- popular photographer

Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of a blur in the out-of-focus regions of an image. Special filters, such as the Apodization filter, will soften the aperture edges of an image to smooth the defocused areas of an image. In result gradually fading circles appear. Some cameras have special settings to create Bokeh and don't need such a filter, such as specially marked Nikon and Canon cameras. One of the more popular models is the Minolta/Sony STF 135mm f/2.8 [T4.5] uses a high quality Apodization filters.

Camera settings are also very important. Because not all cameras need a filter to create Bokeh they need special settings that you can only get in more advanced models, the filter still works better though. Some examples are: the 85mm lens & 70mm aperture* or the traditional portrait lens. The traditional portrait lens does not make perfectly clear Bokeh but is still considered Bokeh because of the blurry pattern in the background, unlike smaller mechanisms such as your cell phone that still can make patterns like Bokeh, but unlike the traditional portrait lens, it is not considered Bokeh. Another type of lens that makes Bokeh without a filter is the Leica lenses, most often the vintage, excels Bokeh quality more than most cameras.

Did you know that the MIT Media Lab discovered the Bokeh effect can be used imperceptibly small barcodes called bokodes, by using markers as small as 3mm with a small lens over them? If the marker is viewed out-of-focus through a regular camera at infinity, the result should be large enough to scan the information in the barcodes.

Bokeh is the atheistic quality of the blur in the out-of-focus regions of an image. Bokeh can be created by filters, such as the Apodization filter or special settings on newer camera models.

~ Kenzie, InkBlot photography photographer

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