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bokeh

English

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WOTD – 3 November 2017

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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An example of bokeh

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

The terminal -h, absent in 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 and karaoke, which have undergone sound changes.

The term has been used since at least 1996,[1] with the spelling bokeh introduced by editor Mike Johnston in the March–April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, Johnston writing “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bokeh (usually uncountable, plural bokehs)

  1. (photography) A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.
    • 2010, Charlotte K. Lowrie, “Exploring Canon Lenses and Accessories”, in Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 186:
      The quality of the out-of-focus area in a wide-aperture image is called bokeh, originally from the Japanese word boke, pronounced bo-keh, which means fuzzy. In photography, bokeh reflects the shape and number of diaphragm blades in the lens, and that determines, in part, the way that out-of-focus points of light are rendered in the image. Bokeh is also a result of spherical aberration that affects how the light is collected. Although subject to controversy, photographers often judge bokeh as being either good or bad. Good bokeh renders the out-of-focus areas as smooth, uniform, and generally circular shapes with nicely blurred edges. Bad bokeh, on the other hand, renders out-of-focus areas with polygonal shapes, hard edges, and with illumination that creates a brighter area at the outside of the disk shape.
    • 2014, Bob Davis, Dawn Davis, “Blackhawks Fans: The Back Story, Posing, Lighting and Lens Selection, Colleagues”, in We’re Engaged!: Photographing Vibrant and Joyful Portraits of the Happy Couple, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
      Shooting with natural light, I used a long lens (200mm) to compress the space and slightly blur the background by photographing at a large open aperture (f/2.5). This resulted in gorgeous bokeh, putting the city into a blur while keeping the couple razor sharp.
    • 2014, Krista Smith, “What You Need”, in The Right Light: Photographing Children and Families Using Natural Light, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 13:
      More expensive lenses usually go down to f/2.8, letting you shoot at faster shutter speeds and get great, creamy bokeh in your background.

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References

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  1. ^ Harold M. Merklinger (1997 March–April) “A Technical View of Boke”, in Photo Techniques (reproduced on The Luminous Landscape website)‎[1], archived from the original on 22 December 2016.
  2. ^ Mike Johnston (2004 April 4) “Bokeh in Pictures”, in The Luminous Landscape‎[2], archived from the original on 3 January 2015.

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Hungarian

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Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Japanese 暈け (boke, “blur”), via English bokeh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bokeh (plural bokeh-k)

  1. (photography) bokeh (the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bokeh bokeh-k
accusative bokeh-t bokeh-kat
dative bokeh-nak bokeh-knak
instrumental bokeh-val bokeh-kkal
causal-final bokeh-ért bokeh-kért
translative bokeh-vá bokeh-kká
terminative bokeh-ig bokeh-kig
essive-formal bokeh-ként bokeh-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive bokeh-ban bokeh-kban
superessive bokeh-n bokeh-kon
adessive bokeh-nál bokeh-knál
illative bokeh-ba bokeh-kba
sublative bokeh-ra bokeh-kra
allative bokeh-hoz bokeh-khoz
elative bokeh-ból bokeh-kból
delative bokeh-ról bokeh-król
ablative bokeh-tól bokeh-któl
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bokeh-é bokeh-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		bokeh-éi bokeh-kéi
Possessive forms of bokeh
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bokeh-m bokeh-im
2nd person sing. bokeh-d bokeh-id
3rd person sing. bokeh-ja bokeh-i
1st person plural bokeh-nk bokeh-ink
2nd person plural bokeh-tok bokeh-itok
3rd person plural bokeh-juk bokeh-ik

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbokɛh]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧kèh

Noun

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bokeh or bokèh

  1. (photography) bokeh, a subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.

Further reading

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