bokeh

I m going to ask a silly question now. I have been reading this forum and browisng other forums, and often people refere to bokeh. What exactly is bokeh?

The amount and quality of front and back blur is called bokeh.

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Bokeh

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/b​okeh.shtml

I thought that was called depth of field ?

bokeh is the part of the picture, (front and back) that is NOT in focus.

DoF is the area IN focus, front and rear of the main subject.

I love this forum exactly for what is explained so nice and easy like this!

Would be great if it was also explained correctly , right ?

Both the links given by Hermeto clearly tell that bokeh is the quality of the out-of-focus areas ...
the quantity of it is referred to as depth-of-field (or rather, what is not within depth-of-field)

If you want to know good bokeh from bad, also look at this link: 50/1.8 ugly bokeh

Best regards,
Andy

How do you actually pronounce "Bokeh". That is the question that has been troubling me for a long while.

Mike

stevieboy378 wrote:
I thought that was called depth of field ?

depth of field is what creates bokeh

it's the depth of said field which, if short enough turns background objects into bokeh.


Hey, that almost sounded smart

"boké"

"Bo" like in Bombadil and "ke" like in "kerry".