Elixir of bokeh

I found this interesting concept in a photography magazine that my wife bought me for Christmas.

The concept is about changing the shape of any bokeh.

It never occurred to me that this could be done so easily.

These examples are just one shot each.

No Photoshoping, just cropping and very basic edits.

 

Here is how I set it up following the example in the magazine.

'The ultimate Photography Masterclass vol 17'

 

My Camera on tripod, manual mode 50mm at f/1.4, 1/40th sec, 64 ISO (or slight variations of these settings)

Then .5 m in front of that is my bottle

Then 1 metre in front of the bottle are my Christmas lights.

The focus is on the bottle and the bokeh has the usual appearance at this aperture . i.e beautiful round orbs of out of focus lights.

Then as per instructions I, (my wife) had cut out a circle of thin black card to the Diameter of my lens (77mm)

I , (my wife) cut out a heart shape in the centre of the card.(make the shape about 1/3 to 1/4 the width of the lens.

I then placed this card on the front of my lens. It was a nice fit so I did not have to tape it to the lens.

This was set up in dark room during the day.

Turn on Christmas lights and snap away.

 

My Christmas lights are are a long strand of small round globes that are continuously changing colour.

The rest of the lights are laying on the floor covered up by a bath mat.

 

 

Done