{"id":215346,"date":"2025-12-28T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215346\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:25:11","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-photo-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215346\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorite photo techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a short diary. First I\u2019m very thankful for the participation in the newly created DKPhotographers group. There have some absolutely incredible pics posted and some good discussion.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The technique I\u2019d like to show is \u201cbokeh\u201d. It basically means \u201cblur\u201d but intentional out-of-focus used to emphasize the subject of a photograph.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>beyond simply isolating a subject, the artistic application of blur can add a great deal to the mood of the photo. It\u2019s one of the most subjective aspects of photography and there are many great examples of it in images posted here.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>there are a couple of ways to achieve this effect. One is to apply selective blur to a region of an image as part of the editing process. Another is to work with whatever lens you are using and get creative with the depth of field that the lens, along with your composition can offer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll drop a few examples of mine here. They all use lens blur from the naturally out of focus regions of the photo.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see some people here post examples of their photos in the comments.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>also, I\u2019d like some critique of my examples especially \u00a0from non-photographers. I really try to take photos that are evocative and not just descriptive. I\u2019d like to know what this adds so that I can improve\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0410.jpeg\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0410.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_0410.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0409.jpeg\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0409.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_0409.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0411.jpeg\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0411.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_0411.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This will be a short diary. First I\u2019m very thankful for the participation in the newly created DKPhotographers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-215346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}