{"id":34,"date":"2012-02-16T21:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:34:05","slug":"what-is-boca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/what-is-boca\/","title":{"rendered":"What is bokeh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bokeh is the <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/portrait-photographer.html\">background <\/a>blurred effect created by being out of focus, using a wide aperture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lgdez.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37 size-full\" title=\"couple portrait with bokeh\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lgdez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lgdez.jpg 880w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lgdez-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lgdez-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a>This image was taken using a 35mm lens 2.8 aperture.\u00a0 Notice the trees and the motorcycle headlight are all out of focus, yet the subjects are in clear focus.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the art of getting bokeh by using a wide aperture. Unfortunately, the better the bokeh &#8211; the more expensive the lens.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when using a wide open aperture focusing becomes difficult.\u00a0 The wider the aperture the narrower the focus field.\u00a0 At 1.2 or 1.4 you&#8217;re dealing with inches on a horizontal plane.\u00a0 Sometimes pinpoint manual focusing is necessary through using Live View &#8211; if using Canon 7D.<\/p>\n<p>Practice, practice, practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bokeh is the background blurred effect created by being out of focus, using a wide aperture. This image was taken using a 35mm lens 2.8 aperture.\u00a0 Notice the trees and the motorcycle headlight are all out of focus, yet the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/what-is-boca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,9,10],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-blurred-background","tag-boca","tag-wide-aperture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}