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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #09
Bokeh
Out-of-focus points of light melt into soft discs. As the aperture opens, the in-focus person stays sharp, the buildings behind soften and the street lamps and distant lights spread into large, pale discs.
Lens & camera effectsbokehshallow depth of fieldbackground blurwide aperturef/1.4out of focuslights
Full motion specification
How the movement works
To lift a person or product off the background and add a soft, festive night mood.
- 01Scene 2: a street corner; buildings, trees and street lamps (x 114, 292, 494) behind a road at y 132–162; the person stands front left (feet at x 176, y 200, 124 px tall). the background drops to a darker scene (sky #E7E5E1)
- 02Background blur (everything but the person): 0 → 6 px
- 03Lights: the three lamps (size 1.25) and 12 more spaced 45 px apart (y 44–114, size 0.6–1.2, fixed seed); disc radius = (2.4 + 15 × effect) × size
- 04Discs: opacity 100% → 55%, lamps amber #FFC75A, distant lights #FFE3A3, with a 1.2 px amber rim
- 05The person stays sharp; top-right aperture f/16 → f/1.4 (8 stops)
- 06Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))
Prompt
Person in a city at night with big round bokeh from the street lights behind; f/1.4, focus on the person.