How to Use bokeh in a Sentence

bokeh

noun
  • My discerning eyes also spot some flaws in the bokeh.
    — PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Photographers will pay a lot of money for a lens with the right bokeh.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
  • Try experimenting with bokeh, lens flares and light leaks to give your photos more charm and depth.
    — Ascend Agency, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Apple calls this Portrait mode, also known as the bokeh effect.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • There’s also a natural bokeh or blur effect on the background.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This shot, as most shots on the Pixels, creates a bokeh effect as the focus singles in.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The main camera produces very fine details and has a natural depth-of-field bokeh effect, too.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The larger sensor allows more light intake, and natural bokeh.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bokeh is inoffensive and fairly typical for an affordable zoom.
    — PCMAG, 6 June 2024
  • On the downside, the bokeh has a busy character, especially in scenes that incorporate fields of grass or clumps of small branches.
    — PCMAG, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Altogether, the sensors create an improved portrait mode with advanced bokeh and depth control.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
  • At ƒ/2, the lens also creates a beautiful, consistent bokeh effect.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
  • The large sensor delivers natural bokeh, along with macro support at a minimum distance of 30cm.
    — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The bokeh, and pictures in general, are free of false color from chromatic aberration (CA).
    — PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
  • That means your bokeh shots have realistic blur without the usual computational issues.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 24 Feb. 2019
  • The detail captured in the flowers, alongside the natural bokeh effect (without portrait mode) made for a nice snap below without much effort.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The Snapdragon 855 first introduced bokeh to video captured with the smartphone camera.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Having such a large telephoto sensor allows the camera to produce natural bokeh and capture more details and dynamic range.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This combination lends itself to transitions from focus to out of focus and background blur (bokeh) that's smooth and free of distracting elements.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some creators prefer a lens that shows more characterful backgrounds as the effect can give images a vintage look, while others will crave the clean, smooth bokeh that's more common in modern lenses.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the details the Sony lenses brought out were incredibly striking, because of how clear everything was with perfect bokeh blurring behind the subject.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Selfies snapped with the Reno 13 Pro are sharper and more detailed than most other selfie cameras, with even a bit of natural bokeh due to the fast-ish aperture.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The company is sticking with the big image sensor strategy, which has certain advantages like better baseline noise performance and more natural bokeh.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 15 Dec. 2023

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