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Hobby: Bokeh Photography
Life would be very boring without hobbies. We would appear like robots without feelings
or color blind creatures or simply aliens on our own planet. Since childhood, we are used to
particular daily activity. Hobby gives us time to relax and enjoy our life. One can fill their spare
time with relaxing activity such as playing computer games, reading novel, watching TV and so
on. In fact, there is a very long list of hobbies and interests to suit our passion.
A hobby or interest that has become well known recently is photography. Through the
social networking medias, one’s interest in photography has become something special.
Everyone has started to show off their masterpiece on those media such as Blog, Facebook,
Twitter, Picasa or Instagram. People who share the same interest can also find inspirational
photographs easily on internet. No need to go to an art gallery regularly to catch some
inspirational thoughts or to see other masterpieces.
Photography is a wide field. There are fashion photography, portrait photography,
journalistic photography, macro photography and so on. Moreover, there are many techniques to
create an amazing photograph. One of those techniques is bokeh. In photography, bokeh
( /boʊkɛ/) is the blur,or the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh
has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". However, differences
in lens aberrations and aperture shape causes 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.

Bokeh is pretty similar with other types of blur. In portrait photographss, blur is the
background area behind the subject of the photograph.
In ordinary camera, blur can be produced automatically
on setting menu but it produces standard blur. This
standard blur is common. However, bokeh is not just
any blur. Commonly, particular type of lens is needed to
create the bokeh photograph. In this bokeh technique,
the lens and aperture shape have to be adjusted. After
that, it can create circle-shaped blur which is uniquely
attractive to the eye.

This bokeh technique can be used in portrait photography. It is useful to capture portrait
or any other photographss with particular subject in front and the light behind. For example, a
portrait with city lights background can be captured. However, the background is not only
limited for lights but also any other backgrounds can be produced as bokeh photograph. It makes
an out-of-focus background so the subject becomes stand out.


As a beginner in photography, one can produce a bokeh photograph with DSLR (Digital
Single Lens Reflect) camera to produce a professional-looking photograph. However, you can
use your phone camera too. You don’t need to buy those expensive photography equipments.
The things you need are camera and the perfect angle with the lights as the background.
Moreover, a cup of creativity is needed to create an amazing bokeh masterpiece.

Vocabulary Building:
photography
photograph
masterpiece
bokeh
lens
blur
aperture
capture
portrait

= skill, job, or process of producing photographs.
= photo
= an extremely good work of art
= a technique in photography to create a circle-shaped blur
= thin curved piece of glass or plastic used in camera
= unclearly vision

= the size of the hole through which light passes to reach the film.
= the act of taking photograph or film
= photograph of a particular person

QUESTIONS:
1. WHAT IS BOKEH PHOTOGRAPHY?
2. COMPOSE SENTENCES USING EACH WORD IN THE VOCABULARY
BUILDING ABOVE!