{"id":18408,"date":"2021-08-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T08:41:51","slug":"challenge-bokeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?p=18408","title":{"rendered":"Challenge &#8211; Bokeh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bokeh (pronounced bok-uh or bo-kay) is all about the blur in the background of a photo, and, more specifically, the quality of that blur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means blur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bokeh is often used to refer to the <strong>circular orbs created by out of focus light<\/strong> &#8211; and that is the emphasis for this challenge (it can sometimes refer to background blur in it\u2019s entirety, but we recently had a challenge for shallow depth of field and blurred backgrounds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An introduction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-digital-photography-school\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8ng0LFS4bB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/how-to-achieve-nice-bokeh-in-plain-english\/\">Bokeh Effect in Photography: A Guide to Gorgeous Background Blur<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Bokeh Effect in Photography: A Guide to Gorgeous Background Blur&#8221; &#8212; Digital Photography School\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/how-to-achieve-nice-bokeh-in-plain-english\/embed\/#?secret=YbTbG7cTh0#?secret=8ng0LFS4bB\" data-secret=\"8ng0LFS4bB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some tutorials and inspiration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/learn\/7-ways-achieve-beautiful-bokeh-effect-photos-stunning-examples\/\">7 Ways to Achieve Beautiful Bokeh Backgrounds<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativelive.com\/photography-guides\/creating-bokeh-backgrounds\">Creating Bokeh Backgrounds<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How to create custom shaped bokeh: <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"18409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?attachment_id=18409\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,847\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bokeh-instructions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-567x600.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-756x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-756x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-756x800.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-567x600.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions-768x813.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bokeh-instructions.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Heads up &#8211; next week&#8217;s challenge will be eyes)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some bokeh examples from our cluster galleries. All of these examples have blurred balls in the background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/fn4iyDP40ZirJjWPnSL1fYcOSrh_oBj9bcr3zbqlpX2MpZsZJtIOAaue5xd4kVGimqqab4Nr7u1zjGS5j3FmRYfJ6Od8TeyWDIEvj13yyVnaja4ioOk=w640\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>by Felicity (from our Activity Night Cluster gallery)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/5oV2OeA8vdVOVXqm3cdigSnSfl2bEFdVJL8j-VCIlrLM6YAk-Fkw3zpAZGOgMKrHoizyNMTlBkFSTn2ArSYmoIoUMxtIO0MXg6fT8SR9bJrUileKdhM=s1280\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>by Marie B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/wFuAGtpnvONDJO2ukECfpefikbrQr6mDQss2P36PPvELrIOOknnroD4w0jbS_zdvHTGj7AQrfvhSlSdrswDGHn73z9XL8mQmHt9jSsil=s1280\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>by Alan B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/HAJ6XC2meVl_wsiHpjR-tqYXd4ED4PWx6hdw7YxGH4S2GM1sK9f2AP-_c_PbUmKsXM89aVhYDf0fdBuye0roVvRCIccgkQGqaBWUt7U=s1280\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>by Glynn M<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Will T for this suggestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have until next Tuesday to upload your image to <a href=\"https:\/\/cluster.co\/\">Cluster<\/a>. Members have all been sent an invitation to join and most have done so already. If you have any trouble feel free to email Esther. We also encourage you to leave encouraging comments for other members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would love to receive your suggestions\/requests for future challenges<strong>. <\/strong>Please leave them as a comment under the challenge notification in Cluster or Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will also post this competition on our &#8220;Friends of BCC&#8221; Facebook group so our friends can still participate by sharing their images on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bokeh (pronounced bok-uh or bo-kay) is all about the blur in the background of a photo, and, more specifically, the quality of that blur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-bokeh.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XlND-4MU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}