Bokeh: Using Blur To Your Advantage

by Luke Clum

http://www.thephotoargus.com/tips/bokeh-using-blur-to-your-advantage/

"Bokeh—from the Japanese ‘boke’, meaning ‘blur’ or ‘haze’—is the blurring or more precisely the aesthetic quality of the blurring of a photograph. Blurring is achieved by using a shallow depth of field.  It can be used to create a number of striking light effects or simply to highlight a subject by keeping the rest of an image out of focus. By employing a shallow focus (depth of field) you can start to use these kinds of blurring effects to your advantage, creating a refreshingly different kind of image to the razor sharp, crystal clear style that has often been prioritized and standardized in photography."