![]() ![]() Colored paper will cast that color into the scene. The circle should be the same size as your lens. Step 1Ĭut a circle out of black cardboard by tracing a lens cap or using a compass. Tools used to create custom bokeh shapes. Drafting compass, circle cutter, or lens cap.You can buy a bokeh kit, but it’s much more fun to do it yourself! To do this, we’re going to create a shaped bokeh filter to put on the front of our lens. We can’t go inside the lens and change the physical aperture opening, but we can change how light enters our lens. So you may ask yourself, ‘how do I change the shape of my bokeh?’. The shape of the light is the shape of your aperture. At some point, you won’t be able to identify light sources. This is one time in photography that we don’t want sharp focus! ![]() Twist the focus ring so that the light blurs. Switch to manual focus and point your camera at a light. Aperture shape and bokeh effect with 50mm at f1.8 Aperture shape and bokeh effect with 50mm at f8.0 When it is at f/1.8, you can see that the opening is a round shape and its bokeh is also a perfect circle. The shape of the blur is the shape of the aperture opening inside our lens. Bokeh isn’t about how much of the photo is in focus, it’s about the shape of the out-of-focus lights. How much of the image is blurred is called “ depth of field“. Our lenses naturally create a blurred-light effect when the aperture is wide open. Bokeh is about visual beauty not correct pronunciation. Some photographers get quite tense about the pronunciation. Most photographers say either “bow-kay” or “bow-kuh”. There’s some disagreement about how to pronounce the word bokeh. Bokeh isn’t just about the functional form, but the artistic effect. It describes the shape of out-of-focus light. The Bokeh Effect: Exploring Bokeh Shapesīokeh is a Japanese word which means ‘blur’ or ‘haze’.
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