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About bokeh

For all those who love shots with shallow depth-of-field and beautiful bokeh

Post pictures where you have made creative use of the properties of bokeh
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SPRING into BOKEH Thread - The BEST of the BEST






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bokeh group update


New Gallery for Bokeh Group Members only!



A Fine Art Gallery has been created on flickr and is exclusive to members of The bokeh Group.

The Bokeh Group Gallery has been created so our members may showcase all of their art work and photography, not just Bokeh images.

To become a member click on this link: Bokeh Group Gallery.
Read the rules, join and add one high quality image to the group Queue. Note: Your first image must be a bokeh photograph which is already in the bokeh Group Pool.

Reminder: Please visit our Sister Group, Masters of Bokeh and enjoy the high quality and interesting bokeh artwork. This group is open to the public. Artists with a good understanding of Bokeh are encouraged to join.
Browse the Masters of Bokeh Group Pool to see if you have what it takes to be a member.
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Examples from our gallery





















Limited depth of field throws up a kind of texture in the blur if it is extreme enough. This is what we are looking for in your photographs. Ideally this blur should be quite profound and throw up visual artefacts from the shape of the lens aperture. Some desire polygonal or circular hard or soft shapes while others prefer a smooth, creamy texture.

This is what we want to see, not a good pic with no bokeh. There are loads of groups to do that in. Just because it's a good pic doesn't mean it'll stay or even get to the pool - it has to be a picture using bokeh
to enhance or make the picture work.

Bokeh is not just about limited depth of field. Just because your picture has limited depth of field does not mean you should post it here. Does your picture have a distinct area of focus and profound defocus? If it's a picture of something with a band of focus across it and everything just fades into blur beyond this, so what! We get a lot of pictures of books with print tilting away from the lens and a narrow band of focus, for example. This is not exciting or anything other than a photo class example of what depth of field actually is.

To excel in the group you really should be trying to use the blur to creatively enhance your shot rather than finding it there as an accident and instantly thinking it is creatively excellent by default. Of course, there are always happy accidents...

Motion blur or blur due to panning is not bokeh.

Lens flare is not bokeh.

Please don't post things where the whole image is blurred.

Please don't post things taken with tilt shift adapters or by so-called free lensing. There are groups for this - post them in there.

If your picture does not make it to the pool it does not mean it's a bad picture so please do not be offended. We're putting a bit of effort into making this a specialist group.

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Seen in bokeh group.

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Thanks for sharing! :-)