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bokeh
Sign in to savethumb|Coarse bokeh on a photo shot with an 85 mm lens and 70 mm entrance pupil diameter, which corresponds to 1.2 thumb|right|An example of a portrait photo (of Katherine Maher). Note the 'swirly' bokeh. thumb|How the bokeh varies with the aperture.
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- Etymology
- Use abroad
- Bokeh and lens design
- Emulation
- Other applications
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Coarse bokeh on a photo shot with an 85 mm lens and 70 mm entrance pupil diameter, which corresponds to 1.2 thumb|right|An example of a portrait photo (of Katherine Maher). Note the 'swirly' bokeh. thumb|How the bokeh varies with the aperture.
In photography, bokeh ( or ; ) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, whether foreground or background or both. It is created by using a wide aperture lens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bokeh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.