Word of the Day
I've been looking around at some new camera lenses, and in my reading came across a word I hadn't heard before: bokeh.
From my handy Oxford dictionary:
the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens : a quick, visual survey of the foreground and background bokeh of a variety of lenses.
ORIGIN from Japanese.
So there you go: bokeh. Today's Diversionary word of the day.
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 and filed under Photos.
Comments
Your use of bokeh is most impressive.
If only my bokeh would render itself artistically. Usually, it just looks like I stuffed up the photograph ;-)
Posted by: OTT on June 27, 2006
Have you ever encountered the "lensbaby"? It's a funny little bendy attachment a bit like a bellows, used with digital (or other?) slrs.
It creates a beautiful bokeh-ish effect around a more focussed sweet spot which can be positioned wherever in the frame you feel like it. Is great fun to mess around with on someone else's gear, but the novelty probably wears off quickly.
Posted by: n on June 28, 2006
Wow. My favorite kind of photographs have always had that fuzzy-background style that I, in my ignorance, used to call 'depth-of-fieldy'.
Now I can hold my head high and say with confidence and authority, "Yep, gotta love those crazy bokeh pics."
Posted by: Adam on August 14, 2006
