Bokeh by chance..

If you have no idea what I'm talking about and are curious, the definition of Bokeh is below. Not long ago, I had no idea what that word meant. Now, I'm trying to perfect the technique. The first photo is of my sister on my porch. Didn't think much of it at the time. However, I now know that I accidentally "Boked"(my own word there, representing the past tense of bokeh). So, today I went out and stalked my neighbors plants with the purposeful intent of creating a bokeh effect. That is the second picture.





Wikipedia Definition; In photography , bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

The only aspect of this bokeh stuff that bugs me is that when I read other photographers talk about this, they seem to only be referring to the light orbs. However, according to the definition, it is merely a blurred background or light that is pleasing to the eye. Well, here's to me learning more tomorrow and the next day and the next etc.