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40 Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography
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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.



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Sasha Muradali
November 16thExcellent post!
I love bokeh, thanks for putting this together. So going to check out those artist on DA! :) -

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Jay Dadivas
November 16thI like it.. Thanks so much…
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Marcel Bianchi
November 17thI would like to give you guys my collaboration:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bianchi/24312098/in/photostream/
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andrewbenardski
November 18thBeautiful!!! love it!
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Roberti Rivas
November 26thNice photos!, i liked so much “embr”, it made me laugh, great work.
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Ashely Adams : Online Printing
November 30thI 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…
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Autonomy
December 5thThis is a great collection – thanks for putting it together! I love the character in embrs photo.
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pat
January 15thYou’re missing this guy:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/safetylast/popular-interesting/He does bokeh really rather well.
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Amit
February 2ndin 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..
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Tim
March 3rdThis isn’t “bokeh”. Bokeh is the QUALITY and PROPERTIES of the blur effect. Quit talking about it like bokeh is the effect itself.
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Bill Jones
March 4thI 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”.
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Nikkel
March 12thTwo bokeh I’m proud of :
http://picasaweb.google.com/nikkel/PublicGalleryMisc#5423645628555608466
http://picasaweb.google.com/nikkel/PublicGalleryMisc#5423646688021085186
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Kawaljeet Virk
May 7thSIMPLY AWESOME…….:)
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Kristy
July 8thThese are LOVELY. do you have a short tutorials for these?
I have the bokehs itself, but how do you put it on via photoshop?
what are the steps you took to insert the bokehs on these photos?
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Angelo Sartore
July 11thAll lovely photos, but, I am amused by the term ‘bokeh’. This is nothing new! Still photographers & motion picture cameramen have been utilising long lenses & wide open apertures for a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng time to create these moods. Out of focus backgrounds & foregrounds can hide many problems with favorable results. In some ways, shallow depth of field can be a by-product of lack of illumination for the shot or just using the available light to light whatever you are photographing.




















































