Bokeh. To some, it’s the most sought-after aspect of a photograph; to others, it’s a buzzword that just won’t die. The term — which is an intentional misspelling of the Japanese word “boke,” meaning ...

Bokeh is a word to describe the quality and appearance of the out of focus areas in a photograph. In this tutorial I'll show you how to change the shape of the bokeh in your photographs by making a ...

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 ...

The pixel-peepers over at DxOMark have shared some of the interesting metrics and techniques they use to judge the quality of a smartphone’s artificial bokeh, or background blur in photos. Not only is ...

Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig. Now we're back to test a ...

Portrait mode-style bokeh camera features have largely been the realm of high-end flagships to this point. That’s due, in part to the fact that many device makers rely on a dual-camera system to ...

Without a doubt, one of the highlight features Apple announced in its new iPhones are the serious upgrades to iPhone 7 Plus‘ image and video capture abilities, thanks in part to the device’s new ...