Can I create the bokeh effect on my Nikon D5000?

I love the bokeh effect, but I'm unsure if I can produce it on my camera. How can I do this? Certain lens you need?

Open the aperture as wide as possible on whatever lens you are using. This will decrease the depth of field to create the bokeh.

It's the lens not the camera that creates "bokeh", all bokeh is is out of focus high lights in your images, open your lens to it's maximum aperture and shoot a picture focused at 6-10 feet the round out of focus white spots in the background are bokeh. Google for Nikkor lenses with good and bad bokeh. Really interesting bokeh is created by mirror lenses the bright spots look like donuts. You can also cut light modifiers into interesting shapes and mount the into a Cokin holder to create interesting bokeh shapes. If your lens aperture has more leaves your bokeh is "rounder: many Nikkors have five-leaf diaphragms so their bokeh is "bad" since the shape is a regular five-sided polygon (pentagon) rather than rounder.

I consider it to be another can't word, insider jargon that was imported from Japanese photographers the word translates as bouquet. (Or that's one story.)