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bokeh

bokeh

English

Example of bokeh.

Noun

bokeh ‎(uncountable)

  1. subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens

References

  1. ↑ Merklinger, Harold. "Understanding Boke". The Luminous Landscape.
  2. ↑ Johnston, Mike (April 4, 2004). "The Sunday Morning Photographer, 2004: Bokeh in Pictures". The Luminous Landscape.

Etymology

From Japanese 暈け ‎(boke, “blur”), the nominalized form of the verb 暈ける ‎(bokeru, “to blur (intransitive)”).

The terminal -h (by comparison with the romanization boke) is a pronunciation guide, so that it is not pronounced as /boʊk/ as it would be under standard English orthography. Contrast karate, karaoke, which have undergone sound change.

Used since at least 1996,[1] with spelling bokeh popularized by editor Mike Johnston in the March/April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, which featured three commissioned articles on the topic, Johnston writing:

“it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boʊkɛ/

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