Making shaped bokeh can add a touch of fun to your holiday photos. In this free tutorial, our contributor Dana Suggs shows you how to create bokeh shapes.
Last year, I posted the above photo of Brooklyns letter to Santa on Facebook. Here it is again for those that dont stalk me on Facebook. LOL
I know..sweet huh?
But I got a lot of comments on the beautiful snowflake bokeh in the background. No, my Christmas lights are not snowflake shaped, they are just normal little white tree lights. In fact, I have made them in other shapes as well.
(Not the best photo, I had a different camera last year that did not do high ISO very well. We make do with what we have until we can afford better.)
Thats my Chandler in the top photo. And in the cute pink winter coat, all blurry in the background, is my Brooklyn, watching the ducks in the pond.
But, my favorite shape this season, was probably the snowflakes. As you can tell.
Yes, even my amazing turkey from Christmas dinner last year, was NOT immune to my obsession of the fun shaped bokeh!
OK, yes, I may be totally odd, but Ive come to terms with it.
Wanna know my secret? Its totally hi-tech and probably has too many instructions for you to possibly duplicate it. Im a complete genius with expensive gadgets too expensive for anyone else to afford. Im just saying..Want me to show you anyway?
Dont be jealous.its a sin you know.
Yes, thats a poorly cut circle with a snowflake hole punched in the center, or what passes as the center, on solid black construction paper.
I told you not to be jealous. HAAA!
Making the Gadget
Use ordinary thick black paper (construction paper will work, this just happens to be scrapbook paper) and you cut it into a strip large enough to cover the entire front of your lens. I used scrap white paper first to measure the lens I was going to use. Then I cut it out of my black paper.
Then I traced around the lens I was going to use. My favorite lens
Then you take a hole punch
Then just tape your black circle over your little cylinder you made to fit over your lens. I had to use some pretty odd tape because I have lots of little ones in my house now that like to steal my tape and tape up pictures they have made all over their bedroom. Its cute, so I will work with odd electrical tape when I have to. Then just slide your hood over your lens!
This is the end result.pretty cool huh? And it fits right into my budget!
Here are some in-camera instructions to help you out:
1| Make sure you use the WIDEST aperture possible (which is the smallest number). For my particular lens (85mm 1.8), my aperture was set at 1.8. The lower the f-stop, the better the blur in the background.
2| You need some separation from your subject and the bokeh. If your subject is sitting right next to the lights you are wanting to change shape, it wont work. Everything will be in focus, and you wont have the fuzzy, light-bokeh in the background.
3| Use dark or black paper. Light will leak into the little paper hood, and it will not work as well with lighter paper.
4| Keep the hood just a little larger in width than your lens so the lens will be able to focus.
5| If the hood does not work for you, just use the round circle (cut larger than your actual lens so light does not leak in). You can focus on whatever your subject is and stop down to hold that focus. Then hold your little circle over the front of your lens, keeping the subject in focus, and snap your picture.
Then, you just practice on anything that will sit still long enough for you to shoot! Today, it seems the toys are the only things that arent moving at the speed of light. We work with what we have. HAAAA!
Be kind to others, and have some FUN with your photos!
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