I am going to keep this post smaller as I have had a surprisingly large amount of work lately, that’s good, but I don’t like neglecting my posts.
A reoccurring theme lately is people asking me for out of focus photos were one subject, be it an item or a person, is in focus and the background is out of focus or blurry. Photographers refer to the quality of that blurriness as “bokeh.” So, you can have good blurriness or good bokeh or bad blurriness or bad bokeh. Generally, you know good bokeh when you see it. The only way you can get bokeh legitimately, be it good or bad, is by using a DSLR or mirrorless camera. Camera phones can fake it by simulating it through software, but they cannot do real bokeh. Honestly, though, unless you are a photographer you probably are not going to notice.
One quick aside, good luck hammering down how to pronounce “bokeh,” as it is Japanese and even the Japanese pronounce it differently depending on what region you are in: but for the record I pronounce it “bo-kaa.”
Anyway, this photo was done outside with just the sunlight. We obviously had the bubble machine going and I was doing something else at the time, but I’ll try and post that on Thursday. However, this moment was candid. My subject was just sitting down to think a second while her little sister was having a blast in the background. Meanwhile the sun was great and the weather perfect.