“Last people on Earth” movies are practically a genre in themselves, having begun as a reaction to 1950s atom-bomb anxiety (“On the Beach,” “Five”), then remained a sporadic presence in all subsequent ...

There’s a group of photographers out there who would look at the lead image of this article and complain about the bokeh not ...

Bokeh. To some, it’s the most sought-after aspect of a photograph; to others, it’s a buzzword that just won’t die. The term — which is an intentional misspelling of the Japanese word “boke,” meaning ...

When a new technology or a feature is introduced in smartphones, OEMs leave no stone unturned to make it “the” feature, making tall claims. Suddenly, with this one new feature, your smartphone becomes ...

How to capture images with attractive out-of-focus areas. Whenever you read a lens review, you’re almost certain to come across an evaluation of the ‘bokeh’ of the lens. It’s an aesthetic quality that ...

Bokeh is a word to describe the quality and appearance of the out of focus areas in a photograph. In this tutorial I'll show you how to change the shape of the bokeh in your photographs by making a ...

Ever seen a shot with great bokeh – that wonderfully blurry background around a sharply focused subject- only to discover on closer inspection, that part of the subject had been blurred out too?

Without a doubt, one of the highlight features Apple announced in its new iPhones are the serious upgrades to iPhone 7 Plus‘ image and video capture abilities, thanks in part to the device’s new ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...

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