# Bokeh

Camera / Focus and depth / Depth of field. Checked 2026-10-13.

Turns background lights into soft discs; warm, dreamy, premium.

- Use when: Evening scenes, festive content, jewellery and beauty.
- Phrase: the string lights behind him rendered as large soft round discs, only his face in focus
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/focus/bokeh
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/focus/bokeh.json

## Watch out

- For stills, practitioners write a full capture line with an aperture (35mm, f/1.8); a 2025 study for Midjourney found f-stops ignored and plain words (blurred background) working. Plain words first, the number as support. (practitioner; Dan Kieft (1 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on image prompting; Midjourney mapping in our own notes (2025, to audit))

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: the string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: the string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: the string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting].
Capture: the string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: The string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: The string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
The string lights behind the subject rendered as large soft round discs, only the subject's face in focus. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Shallow depth of field: https://directorchair.ai/focus/shallow-focus
- Anamorphic: https://directorchair.ai/lens/anamorphic-lens

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.