My love for Bokeh is directly proportional to my desire to try it.
Bokeh encourages photographers to relate the sharp foreground to the blurry background in a visually pleasing and creative manner. The two can then interact, producing abstract images. Surprisingly Bokeh is one of the most-used photographic techniques, but the least focused-on. Not every lens can achieve nice Bokeh, and some camera lenses are chosen solely on their Bokeh properties.
The Bokeh effect in photography is similar to when you are staring at water, let your eyes go out of focus, and can see shinny discs gliscening in the sunlight. That was one of my favourite things to do as a child whenever I was lying by the pool in summer.
Bokeh comes from the Japanese word boke, which means 'blur' or 'haze'. The Japanese term boke is also used to describe mental haze or senility.
The English spelling for Bokeh was popularized in 1997 by the editor of Photo Techniques magazine, Mike Johnston, when he commissioned three papers on the topic. He altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying "it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable".
To me Bokeh is a challenge, you have to balance so many variables to get your beautiful soft discs of light and create an original composition. There are different camera settings, lighting, lens types and subjects to think about. It has also become popular to put shape shields over the lens to produce light shapes like the heart one below. One day soon, I hope, I will post a magnificent Bokeh photo here, but I have a feeling this technique will be more of an ongoing experience rather than a checked box. Let the journey begin!
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