Timeline for What is this effect, with millions of coloured light dots surrounding people in the dark?
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| Jul 11, 2013 at 22:25 | history | edited | kenny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited to doubly emphasize "bokeh" is a more general term (based on @jrista's comments)
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| Jul 7, 2013 at 16:40 | comment | added | jrista | @kenny: Heh, good point...although I think I'd still call them blur circles, even if they are shaped like christmas trees. ;) | |
| Jul 7, 2013 at 13:41 | comment | added | kenny | @jrista, wouldn't blur circle only apply to apertures that are circle shaped? My 50mm f/1.8 does some great "blur pentagons"... :) | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 19:29 | comment | added | jrista | Technically speaking, Boke, the Japanese word, simply refers to the entire area of out of focus regions of a photo (which usually means the background, but could refer to the foreground). Bokeh is a change to the spelling of the word to enforce the correct pronunciation by English speakers. Boke refers to the overall nature and quality of background blur, both blur circles and completely blurred content. The proper technical term for an out of focus highlight is "blur circle", if one wishes to address only that aspect of background blur specifically. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 15:28 | comment | added | Joanne C | @Sourav - Why do you think that? Bokeh is the shape of out of focus highlights and these are out of focus highlights. A lot of them really... At any rate, that's not the whole answer, it's a part of it. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 15:04 | comment | added | Sourav | It's not a bokeh ! | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 12:51 | history | answered | kenny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |