Exploring how to use Bokeh

- As the aperture in your lens gets wider,…depth of field in your scene gets more shallow.…If you are not comfortable with that concept.…If that's a total mystery to you.…You need to go check out my…"Foundations of Photography: Exposure" class,…which will walk you through all of the basic rudiments…of photographic exposure.…Aperture size and depth of field,…is one of those rudimentary things…that you really have to have command over…to have the most artistic and creative expression…available to you as you're shooting.…Now, as depth of field gets softer…we tend to think that,…"Oh that means the background's getting blurry."…But there's actually a...…

Aesthetic to that blur.…There's a quality to that blur…that maybe you haven't paid attention to.…That quality is called bokeh.…It's a Japanese word that translates roughly…from blur, or haze, or blur quality.…It's simply that,…a measure of the aesthetic quality of that blur.…And you may think, "The aesthetic quality of a blur,…"how can a blur have an aesthetic?"…Well, this week on The Practicing Photographer,…