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- noun subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens
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The term bokeh is an anglicised version of a Japanese word used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture.
Create Your Own Bokeh For Beautiful Photo Effects | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The term bokeh is an anglicised version of a Japanese word used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture.
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The term bokeh is used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture.
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The term bokeh is used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture.
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The term bokeh is an anglicized version of a Japanese word used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture.
Daily DIY 2009
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The red lines around her are called bokeh, it occurs when things aren't in focus.
Check This Out: Badass New Nightmare on Elm Street Banner « FirstShowing.net 2010
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The background is beautifully blurred (this is called bokeh).
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The name Bokode comes from the Japanese photography term bokeh, which refers to the round blob produced in an out-of-focus image of a light source.
MIT Media Lab Events and Highlights slotnick 2009
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They've slapped him in and added light wrap on him and thats why the poster looks wrong because there is "bokeh" on the walls but not on freddie!
Check This Out: Badass New Nightmare on Elm Street Banner « FirstShowing.net 2010
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I also used an effect called "bokeh," which I haven't really defined yet on the blog.
Archive 2009-09-01 James Gurney 2009
arj commented on the word bokeh
The areas in a photograph that are out of focus. Reportedly a borrowing from a Japanese word "??" 'blur'. I can only guess that the spelling with h is to avoid the /bo?k/ pronuncation.
"I'll go against the grain, at the risk of getting flamed, and say that the bokeh is nice from this lens, but far from 'the best ever'." -- Canonosaurus Rex on Flickr
June 28, 2009
john commented on the word bokeh
“Fujifilm says its $280 FinePix F70EXR and $600 FinePix S200EXR use its advanced EXR sensor and multiframe technology to enable users to simulate the wide-aperture background blurs (or bokeh) of D.S.L.R. cameras.�?
The New York Times, Fujifilm Adds EXR Sensor to Super-Zooms, by Rik Fairlie, July 22, 2009
July 24, 2009