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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bokeh - Out Of Focus (DIY)

So, what is Bokeh? Bokeh in photography as defined by Wikipedia is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".

I created something similar to what is found in the Internet to create artistic bokeh or bokeh with different shapes aside from the common circular, pentagonal, octagonal shape of bokeh. By the way, I also read from the Internet that the bokeh is also affected by the number of aperture blades the camera lens has but I can't recall where I have read it exactly from.

Anyway, back to creating different bokeh shapes was something interesting and I tried it myself on my kit lens. Basically, it's like overriding the default bokeh shape of the lens. With the Christmas season, I took the chance to create and experiment on this one as there's a bountiful resource of light points from Christmas lights.

Here's my best photos:

Straight Curls


Circular Curls


Circular Triangles


 Here's my do-it-yourself interchangeable bokeh accessory that yielded the above photos:



Here's a link for my inspiration to create myself a bokeh accesory: DIYPhotography. Thers's more DIYs in there to try as well.

2 comments:

  1. sir gelo,

    nice blog! talented ka pala sa photography.

    jet

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  2. Thanks Jet! That's really flattering. Nde pa naman mashado ganun ka talented.. Photography forums have helped a lot despite not having formally training or some sort.

    Thanks again! By the way, I checked out your blog. Very informative indeed.

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