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KatherineDavis — How to make bokeh
Published: 2009-12-14 15:24:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 80735; Favourites: 433; Downloads: 1074
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Press download on the side to see a bigger res.This is a tutorial for anyone wanting to know more about bokeh, its pretty simple, but in all honesty it is actually simple to make bokeh.
I also wanted to make one.. cos there is no tutorial on deviantart that i could find that actually explained how to make basic bokeh, if you make your own, you can use your OWN stock to edit in bokeh in your own photos, without having to credit someone else.
I didn't mention in the tutorial but you can make bokeh pretty much from anywhere, go outside in a sunny day and take photos of bushes, water, anything and experiment with the lense.
Your not an idiot for not knowing, you just haven't been told yet
Fav it, save it, use it
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When my image gets blurred & I take the shot, it gets in focus. Is there a way to keep the shot blurred?
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2 you. I really like your tutorial
I wanna asked you that can i borrow this picture to translate it to Vietnamese?(i come from Vietnam)
I have translated as follows, hope you allow me to upload pictures !
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Thanks verymuch
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Is the 1.8 in your tutorial the F-number? My lens doesn't go any lower than F3.5, if it is.
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I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I made my shape cover but yet I don't get lights of hearts when I take a picture. I just get a picture of what's in front of me, just with the image being in a heart shape with everything else around being blacked out.
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Thank you so much for this! Wonderfully helpful
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hello !
nice tutorial, but i don't get what you have to do after you made the heart shaped paper to get the colored heart on the picture, is it by using photoshop and stamping the hearts?
thank you
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This is a very informative tutorial! I shall have to remember this when I actually get my own camera. ^^
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Thanks for the tip on how to make different shaped bokeh!
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I need help ;__;
I used christmas lights in the background to get an bokeh effect. When I look trough the eye cup there are perfect bokeh circles. But on the picture it is just a bright area. What do I wrong? I used a stand so normally it is not because my hands were shaking.
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wow...that is really cool! >^_^< too bad i only have a simple digi camera...looks like that'd be fun to try
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Thanks! I'm totally saving up for that lens. Right now, the lowest aperture my camera will go to is 2.8. I think that might be why my bokeh isn't very smooth. (i've been adding blurs and more in photoshop to make them look nice...yet they still are a little noisy).
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It;s so worth it
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Wow. Thanks for posting this. I never knew how to do it until I found this. Now I can't wait to try it. (:
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That's okay, there weren't any proper tutorials on here, so i thought i'd make one
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Kath, awesome Bokeh tutorial. I especially love the heart-shaped filter. I bet you could use those shaped hole punches that scrap-bookers use to make some interesting shapes.
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Yeah you could, if you live where it snows you could make snowflakes.
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