How to Use bokeh in a Sentence

bokeh

noun

• Compare the bokeh in these two shots above, one from the 12 Pro Max and one from the 12 Pro.
  — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
• Photographers will pay a lot of money for a lens with the right bokeh.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
• This shot, as most shots on the Pixels, creates a bokeh effect as the focus singles in.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 3 Aug. 2020
• Apple calls this Portrait mode, also known as the bokeh effect.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• The main camera produces very fine details and has a natural depth-of-field bokeh effect, too.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• There’s also a natural bokeh or blur effect on the background.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
• Portrait mode that improves the bokeh effect by adding artificial blur to the foreground as well as the background.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• That includes green forests, blue seascapes, browns and grays in city shots, portraits, macro images, close-ups, images with strong bokeh, stacked images with long depth of field, and more.
  — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 19 Oct. 2020
• With the latter, the 12 Pro Max was better at capturing hairlines and body lines for determining when to start the bokeh effect.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
• The Snapdragon 855 first introduced bokeh to video captured with the smartphone camera.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 5 Dec. 2019
• The big upgrade this year, at least for me, is Cinematic mode, which adds semi-convincing bokeh (the blurred background effect) to videos.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• While the Duo 2 uses its depth sensor to synthesise a fake 'bokeh', focussed on me and with the wood (only 0.6m) behind me completely out of focus.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The slide-up area houses a 24MP front camera plus a second 2MP sensor to capture depth information for things like bokeh effects.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2018
• Video editors will also be able to manually edit the depth of field and bokeh levels in their footage after capture.
  — J. Clara Chan, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2021
• And because of the all-powerful 5nm Apple silicon, the digital bokeh and focus points can be adjusted after the fact.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• At ƒ/2, the lens also creates a beautiful, consistent bokeh effect.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
• Altogether, the sensors create an improved portrait mode with advanced bokeh and depth control.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
• Better portrait mode A few years ago, phone makers like Apple, Samsung and Huawei introduced cameras that produced portrait mode, also known as the bokeh effect, which sharpened a subject in the foreground and blurred the background.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Shooting a 360-degree view of the landscape, or getting the shallow depth of field bokeh effect, all without a big fancy camera, are good examples of what computational photography can do.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2022
• That means your bokeh shots have realistic blur without the usual computational issues.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 24 Feb. 2019
• This webcam offers an f/1.7 aperture that should allow for natural-looking bokeh and hopefully solid low-light performance, too.
  — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023
• Roxanne’s whimsical radiance with the cinematographer turning to long lenses, flares and a blooming bokeh blur to illuminate the transcendent feeling of being swept off her feet.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• The larger sensor pulls in significantly more image information than other smartphone sensors, and also produces a shallow depth-of-field for natural bokeh.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Over the past year, Apple has stepped up its computational photography game; its sensors perform better in low light, color accuracy is incredible, and features like bokeh and auto-enhancements are much improved.
  — Steven Winkelman, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024