I joined an online photography group last year on the Mighty Networks social platform. The group is sponsored by Nicole S. Young, also known as “Nicolesy” and this year on Mighty Networks, Nicolesy is sponsoring a photo challenge that she’s calling, the “52 Photo Challenge”, or “52 PC”. Basically, each week she will post a theme for that week and we’re supposed to take a photo of something that fits in with that week’s theme. The challenge started on Monday, January 3, 2022, and the challenge for week 1 is called, “Bokeh”.
These are the photos I took today for the Bokeh challenge. The first photo in this gallery, with the three lights in the “Bokeh” region of the photo is the one I submitted for the challenge
Here is a definition of what “Bokeh” means:
In photography, bokeh (/ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə or /ˈboʊkeɪ/ BOH-kay; Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring (“good” and “bad” bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens’s bokeh.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.
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