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40 Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography

by Bill Jones

I’m sure most of you have heard of the term bokeh. Basically it is referring to the aesthetic quality of the blur produced from a shot with shallow depth of field. Determining factors of bokeh are things like lens aberrations and shape of lens aperture.

Bokeh is a very subjective thing. Its hard to say what is “good” bokeh and what is “bad”. In my opinion anything that is less distracting and adds something to the image would be considered good and anything distracting or confusing to the image would be considered bad. Based on that I have gathered some examples of what I think is beautiful bokeh photography.

Petra

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Sortvind

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Corrie White

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Andrew Wong

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Thiur

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Casper Lans

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Hannah Hylen

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Ting Hay

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Krawat93

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Jenipho

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


AgniMax

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


prismes

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Sortvind

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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Will Montague

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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Stian Throndsen

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shannkat

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Manuela Hoffmann

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embr

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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Bokehjo

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


Mondo Cardine

Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography


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29 Comments

  • whaly

    November 16th

    As a newbie, thanks, now I know what is a Bokeh !

  • TF28

    November 16th

    Very much enjoyed this compilation. Thanks!

  • Brad C

    November 16th

    Yeah, very nice collection of photos.

  • Sasha Muradali

    November 16th

    Excellent post!
    I love bokeh, thanks for putting this together. So going to check out those artist on DA! :)

  • MainlineMom

    November 16th

    Soooo beautiful! I am a bokeh addict!

  • Jay Dadivas

    November 16th

    I like it.. Thanks so much…

  • Mary Elizabeth

    November 16th

    Beautiful jobs, well done!!!

  • publikaccion

    November 17th

    lovely shots for sure :-D

  • Dee

    November 17th

    Those are beautiful! Love Bokeh!

  • Marcel Bianchi

    November 17th

    I would like to give you guys my collaboration:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bianchi/24312098/in/photostream/

  • Roo

    November 17th

    Here’s my comtribution

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/roomurdock/3600118390/

  • Photo Retoucher

    November 18th

    Creative shots!

  • andrewbenardski

    November 18th

    Beautiful!!! love it!

  • Hufsa

    November 18th

    Those are absolutely incredible, I love ‘em ! :)

  • Prabhu.MP

    November 20th

    Very difficult Photographs to take. Thanx and wishes for the photographers

  • Eduardo Trauer

    November 20th

    Simples e espetacular!!

  • Roberti Rivas

    November 26th

    Nice photos!, i liked so much “embr”, it made me laugh, great work.

  • Ashely Adams : Online Printing

    November 30th

    I am new to this kind of photography…This has been a great introduction for me…I love the use of colors and light…I simply adored the blurring of the background effects; this effect gave a new outlook to the image as a whole…thanks for sharing this post…

  • robb

    December 1st

    wow that cup and spilled blue lights is so cool.
    great idea.

  • Autonomy

    December 5th

    This is a great collection – thanks for putting it together! I love the character in embrs photo.

  • pat

    January 15th

    You’re missing this guy:
    http://www.flickriver.com/photos/safetylast/popular-interesting/

    He does bokeh really rather well.

  • Amit

    February 2nd

    in bokeh photography we should concentrate more on the subject n the selection of the subject..the more attractive or unusual the subject, it will b more interesting for the viewers to view the pic.. due to the blurred foreground the subject will b focused more..loved the pic AgniMax..

  • Pippa

    February 10th

    Such wonderful images. very cleverly done. thanks for sharing

  • blueweb

    February 10th

    What a amazing! I really love this subject :)

  • Anish

    February 11th

    Amazing….

  • Mark B

    February 18th

    Such beautiful pictures – I really want to learn to master that technique.

  • Tim

    March 3rd

    This isn’t “bokeh”. Bokeh is the QUALITY and PROPERTIES of the blur effect. Quit talking about it like bokeh is the effect itself.

  • Bill Jones

    March 4th

    I agree. You did read my second sentence didn’t you? As far as referring to that type of photography as “Bokeh”, I guess I could have put “Really Sweet Looking Shallow Depth of Field Photography”.

  • jmleclercq

    March 7th

    Great Collection !!

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