One major difference between the eye and the senses of your camera lens is that the eye has a depth of field (DOF) is almost without limit while the lens is limited, this brings the consequence that the lens focal plane is not covering the eye. And former photographer has decided to actually take advantage of this weakness into a weapon. Thus was born what was then called bokeh.
Bokeh is a Japanese word meaning ‘blurred’, so bokeh photos are photos that show the characteristics of a main object of focus is very sharp while the background (or foreground) is very vague, or in English selective focusing.
How we can produce bokeh photos? Here you can do:
- Select the manual mode or Aperture Priority.
- Choose the largest possible aperture settings.
- View the f / x on your lens, the smaller x, the larger the aperture and the narrow field of focus
- Think about the distance factor, i.e. the distance in front of and behind the object field.
- Suppose you stand one meter in front of friends (front = 1 meter distance) and you drop the lens focal point on the face. Your friend was standing about 10 feet from the nearest background (distance = 10 meters behind), then the background will look very blurry. In essence, the smaller the distance the front (the distance between the lens and the object) and the greater the distance the rear (the distance between the object and the background) your background increasingly blurred.
- Many practicing and you try to buy a lens with aperture capability as possible.
Tip: If you really like the bokeh, non-zoom lens with super-large aperture is the fastest way get bokeh (e.g.: 85mm f/1.8 & 50mm f/1.8, this lens is a lens of two super fast and cheap, also producing exceptional bokeh ).