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  2. Bokeh - Wikipedia

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    When used in portrait photography (for their "natural" perspective), the photographer usually wants a shallow depth of field, so that the subject stands out sharply against a blurred background. Bokeh characteristics may be quantified by examining the image's circle of confusion. In out-of-focus areas, each point of light becomes an image of ...

  3. Brenizer method - Wikipedia

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    An image produced by this method is sometimes referred to as a bokeh panorama [3] (or the portmanteau bokehrama) [4] in reference to the deliberate blurring style of bokeh photography. The process requires taking multiple shots of a scene in a manner that allows for later image stitching using a fast lens, generally of a focal length of 50 mm ...

  4. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 1950s, the Japanese were seriously challenging the Germans. For example, the Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-P Auto 10.5 cm f/2.5 of 1959, for the Nikon F 35mm SLR (1959), is reputed to be one of the best portrait lenses ever made, with superb sharpness and bokeh. It originated as the Nikkor-P 10.5 cm f/2.5 (1954) for the Nikon S series ...

  5. Shallow focus - Wikipedia

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    It is often proclaimed by some to being a way to avoid the "video look." Extremely shallow focus – sometimes called bokeh porn [3] – made its debut in cinematography in 2008 with the release of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the start of DSLR cinematography. Autumn illumination in Tokugawa Garden, Japan. A wide aperture of f/1.8 allows the ...

  6. Portrait photography - Wikipedia

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    Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. [1] A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. [ 1 ]

  7. Miniature faking - Wikipedia

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    Digitally blurred miniature fake of Jodhpur Original photo of Jodhpur. Miniature faking, also known as diorama effect or diorama illusion, is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale model.

  8. Soft focus - Wikipedia

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    In photography, soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to uncorrected spherical aberration.A soft focus lens deliberately introduces spherical aberration which blurs fine texture in the image while retaining sharp edges across areas of high contrast; it is not the same as an out-of-focus image, and the effect cannot be achieved simply by defocusing a ...

  9. Low-key photography - Wikipedia

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    Example of a low-key photograph. Low-key photography is a genre of photography consisting of shooting dark-colored scenes by lowering or dimming the "key" or front light illuminating the scene (low-key lighting), and emphasizing natural [1] or artificial light [2] only on specific areas in the frame. [3]