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Yorokobu Magazine / Issue #16 cover / 2011 Amazing

Ben Rama — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:26:43 +0000

Yorokobu Magazine /

Issue #16 cover / 2011

The briefing for this project was to create something related to the word YOROKOBU which in Japanese means “to be happy”.

This piece has been designed using pencil and lipstick. The only digital work used was in putting together the final composition elements. The techniques used help to create a product which is spontaneous and original.

A return back to my original methodology has resulted in my own interpretation of what it means to be happy.This specific issue coincides with an important moment in expansion for YOROKOBU as their production has recently increased from 5,000 copies to an astounding 30,000. To commemorate this milestone, the magazine has included a poster of my piece.

thankyou to Vicente García Morillo

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80+ Awe Inspiring Bokeh Effect Photos

Ben Rama — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:04:52 +0000

In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— “good” or “bad” bokeh, respectively.

Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.

The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-aji (ボケ味), the “blur quality”. The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.

The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the March/April 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”. Bokeh replaced the previous spelling boke that had been in use at least since 1996, when Merklinger had also suggested “or Bokeh if you prefer.”

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