{"id":324,"date":"2007-01-03T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-03\/324"},"modified":"2007-01-03T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T11:32:29","slug":"funky-spectral-highlights-in-my-bokeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-03\/324","title":{"rendered":"Funky Spectral Highlights in My Bokeh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/a>Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 40mm —\n1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 100 — full\nexif & map<\/a><\/span>Most of this\nshot is out of focus<\/span>(but that's okay)<\/div>\n\n

The Japanese word boke<\/i> (\u307c\u3051<\/b>) in Japanese photography\nrefers to the out-of-focusness of some objects in a scene,<\/span> such as the\nforeground and background leaves of the image above. Although the word's\nrominization as “boke” makes it look like a one<\/span>-syllable word\nlike the English “poke”, it's a two<\/span> syllable word that sounds\nsimilar to “bouquet” (i.e., like “bow-keh”).<\/p>\n\n

When this word is used by English-speaking photographers, it's often\nwritten as “bokeh” so as to make its pronunciation more\napparent to, well, other English-speaking photographers. When used in\nEnglish, the meaning changes a bit<\/span> as well.....\n\n<\/p>

\n\nWhile in Japanese it refers to the fact of something being out of focus, in\nEnglish it refers to the subtle aesthetic qualities of how that\nout-of-focusness appears. Two otherwise<\/span> comparable lenses can produce very\ndifferent looks for the out-of-focus areas of an image. For example, one\nlens might produce soft, smooth, buttery transitions among the out-of-focus\nelements, while another might produce more harsh transitions. Lenses are\nsaid to have, or produce, “good bokeh” or “bad\nbokeh” (although as with anything artistic, many disagree on which is\nwhich). A sense<\/span> of this aesthetic nature can found in the Japanese word\nthat's comparable to how “bokeh” is used in English: \u307c\u3051\u5473\n· bokeaji<\/i>, literally “taste of the\nout-of-focusness.”\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe current Wikipedia\npage about bokeh<\/a> has some examples.\n\n\n<\/p>

\n\nWhen looking at the full-size\nversion<\/a> of the image above, the bokeh seems pretty harsh, yet it was\ntaken with a very<\/span> high-quality lens (Nikkor 17<\/span>-55 f\/2.8) whose bokeh is\ngenerally considered very nice. One reason<\/span> for this picture's harsh bokeh\ncould be the lack of quality of the photographer (me), but it's probably\nbecause of the subject: direct sun on leaves heavily laden with the morning\ndew. (I took<\/span> it at the Konpukuji Temple<\/a> six weeks\nago, on my photographic outing with Nils<\/a>.)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI found it particularly interesting because the sun and dew drops and\nangles were all just right such that some funky circular prism effects\nresulted, as shown at the bottom of the full-resolution crop below:<\/p>\n\n

Funky spectral highlights in my bokeh<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Japanese word boke (\u307c\u3051<\/b>) in Japanese photography refers to the out-of-focusness of some objects in a scene, such as the foreground and background leaves of the image above. Although the word's rominization as \"boke\" makes it look like a one-syllable word like the English \"poke\", it's a two syllable word that sounds similar to \"bouquet\" (i.e., like \"bow-keh\").<\/p>

When this word is used by English-speaking photographers, it's often written as \"bokeh\" so as to make its pronunciation more apparent to, well, other English-speaking photographers. When used in English, the meaning changes a bit as well..... <\/p>

While in Japanese [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}