Blurry photos are generally a bad thing. But although it’s true that—with rare exception—no one likes camera shake in their photos, sometimes blur is intentional, such as when you shoot a photo with ...

2016 has witnessed a fair share of design and performance tweaks in smartphones. There have been numerous improvements (at least the companies would like to call them that) but what we think has ...

Bokeh is the term used to describe how good the out of focus blur, which is usually in the background, looks. Good bokeh will show attractive out of focus highlights and how the lens you're using is ...

I love taking portraits this time of year; the natural light is beautiful, the sky on clear days is dark blue, and at night there are plenty of holiday lights to create interesting backdrops for a ...

Bokeh (which translates to "blur" in Japanese) is a photography technique referring to the blurred areas of a photograph. Basic bokeh photographs often have one point of focus, while the background ...

Most struggle to pronounce the word and argue about its pronunciation. Bokeh is one of the most popular photo effects, so much that smartphones use software enhancements to try and replicate it ...

Pronounced "bo-kay," the bokeh effect refers to the out-of-focus background in a photo or video. Depending on camera type and distance to the object in focus, the bokeh effect is often unintentional; ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...

Our first scene is outdoors with our subject placed against a very distant background. We didn't talk about the importance of the distance of the background in our musings on the previous page, but ...