Here are a few photos I took (and Chris took the last one of course). You may need to illuminate the foreground objects with a little extra light or flash. The pictures end up with a campy fisheye effect and burned edges from the lens cover.Īside from just taking pictures of light, which are cool, add a few other things into the frame to create a dialogue with the bokeh. I like f/1.8 with at least 1/800 seconds and the highest ISO I can get away with depending on the lighting conditions. Set the camera to the lowest aperture possible, and adjust the aperture and shutterspeed accordingly. As I mentioned earlier, sharp pinpoints of light like twinkle lights, headlights, or electronic lights make the most defined bokeh shapes. Otherwise, your bokeh shapes will sit at an angle. Line the filter up so the shape is standing straight up and down. Time to shoot! These are experimental bokeh filters, so get out and experiment. When you’re finished, it should look something like this:
Then, wrap the lens cover around your camera lens and fix it in place with a rubber band or hair tie. Once all of the pieces are cut out, pop one of the bokeh filters into the lens cover by sliding it through the slits marked on either side of the lens cover. Then adjust the side pieces to match the new lens diameter, and cut accordingly. You can easily adapt it to any other lens by turning your lens upside down on the printout, centering it on the lens cover template, and using a mechanical pencil to draw a circle around it.
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The attached lens cover filter fits a 50mm f/1.8 Nikon lens for a full frame camera. For filter shapes that have a little negative space, like the surfer and the musical note, glue a piece of acetate to the back of the filter and then glue the card stock in the negative space. It’s best to start with a Xacto knife, cutting the interior shapes first before cutting the outer line of the filters and lens cover. There are two dotted lines on the lens cover – one indicates where to fold the paper over the lens and the other indicates how the bokeh filters line up on the hood. Use painter’s tape to tape the printouts over 8.5 x 11 black cardstock. One printout is for the bokeh filters, and the other is for a lens cover that goes over the lens hood. Save the following two DIY Shaped Bokeh Template jpegs to your computer, and print them out. Rounded blades, along with more blades, more closely approximates a perfect circle at all apertures. Many older lenses such as Nikon 50mm f/1.4D have straight blades in their diaphragms, whereas newer lenses often have rounded blades. Rubber Band or Hair Tie DIY Shaped Bokeh Instructions The shape of the reflected light in out of focus areas depends on the lens diaphragm. Choose from hearts, horses, stars, snowflakes, leaves, batman, butterflies, musical notes, fish, birds, surfers and surfettes. I’ve been wanting to do this diy for a while, and finally finished the templates! Sharp pinpoints of light work best to capture the fun shapes in these bokeh filters. Before you put away those Christmas lights, try out this fun diy shaped bokeh.
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