Hello! I really really want to learn how to do some bokeh shots, and I keep coming across conflicting information online, and then I thought "what an idiot I am! I have a huge resource right in front of me!" So.....can I see your bokeh? And if you feel so inclined, could you add a bit of an explanation as to how you did it? I would greatly appreciate it! And I love another excuse to look at some more photos. Thanks!!!!
Hi Paula.. I like this one of mine... a kind of natural bokeh. The green is plant, orange is a pot, and the pink and other colors are cars passing by, achieved by very short focus distance and especially the f/1.2
Same lens at 1.2. Without this bokeh, the photo is nothing IMO.
This black and white portrait shows "old style" bokeh produced by 30-year-old lense. Most new aspirical lenses don't produce this kind of smooth bokeh.
This was taken super early in my project, but still probably my favorite bokeh. It's all about depth of field and composition to get a really great bokeh in my opinion.
Bokeh is really easy with a 50mm lens :-) In order to get it, you need to shoot against the sunlight. The order is: sunlight, subject, photographer. However, you don't want to shoot right agains the sun. The best time to get great bokeh is when the sun is setting :-) Here is another example, taken 30 min before sunset:
This photo was pretty plain and taken on a white background. I added an overlay from Cottage Arts. They are easy to use, and can make an okay photo look awesome.
@pwallis mine will be more of a comparison of bokeh between two lenses..
this is from a nikkor 35mm at f/1.8
and this is from a really old, moldy nikkor 50mm f/1.8.
:D
WOW!!! Posted this last night and didn't check the thread again until today. Thanks for all the bokeh photos everyone - now I really have to get out there and give this a go - these are all so lovely! Thanks so much everyone:)
Mine is subtle... But that's probably because my technique isn't the best - I just set my camera to a shallow FOD and look for bright light sources in the background. :) Not much planning, but it usually works.
This is mine!
I used photoshop to make mine, i found a brush that had a heart in it, then i set it to overlay, and played with the opacity. it was my first try, but i think it looks alright!
ok, I admit it, I went a little bokeh crazy a week or so ago :)
Oh and I looked for light sources in the natural environment for these shots (sunlight relfecting on leaves mostly)
I saw a photos on here and wanted to try this "bokeh" thing, ~ I looked it up and then took this shot. ~
I was just trying to get a shot of the snow. ~ And i got this and loved it.~
I was out late and unfocused my camera and this happened, this was an actual attempt at bokeh, now that I've read about and it. ~ Still figuring it out. ~
I think I'm figuring it out. ~ I'm trying to make the shaped bokeh. ~ And I want to get some natural bokeh. ~
@pwallis use a large aperture and focus on something that's not in the same plane as whatever you want blurred. little spots of light make for really pretty bokeh (artificial lights or even little spots of sunlight peeking through tree branches).
some photos have the circles or shapes that they made with cut outs and then other photos have just blurred backgrounds. Bokeh is the out of focus of DOF.
I did some post processing on this but it didn't heighten the bokeh which happened because of the light coming through a small-leafed shrub behind the dandelion.
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Same lens at 1.2. Without this bokeh, the photo is nothing IMO.
This black and white portrait shows "old style" bokeh produced by 30-year-old lense. Most new aspirical lenses don't produce this kind of smooth bokeh.
A good way to practice is to find some light and shoot out of focus:
Snow makes good bokeh too, if you get any where you live. Again, just shoot out of focus:
Bokeh is really easy with a 50mm lens :-) In order to get it, you need to shoot against the sunlight. The order is: sunlight, subject, photographer. However, you don't want to shoot right agains the sun. The best time to get great bokeh is when the sun is setting :-) Here is another example, taken 30 min before sunset:
I am not sure how to do this with the camera, so i added mine in post-processing with picnik.
PHEW!
this is from a nikkor 35mm at f/1.8
and this is from a really old, moldy nikkor 50mm f/1.8.
:D
Okay you get the idea :P
IT's just now that i realized.. i got hell of a bunch of bokehs.. wahhahahahah ENJOY! =)
Popped on my 50mm lens focused on the hand & shot at f 1.8
not as dramatic. but i think its enough
This is mine!
I used photoshop to make mine, i found a brush that had a heart in it, then i set it to overlay, and played with the opacity. it was my first try, but i think it looks alright!
@omnomgreen
@pwallis
Oh and I looked for light sources in the natural environment for these shots (sunlight relfecting on leaves mostly)
I was just trying to get a shot of the snow. ~ And i got this and loved it.~
I was out late and unfocused my camera and this happened, this was an actual attempt at bokeh, now that I've read about and it. ~ Still figuring it out. ~
I think I'm figuring it out. ~ I'm trying to make the shaped bokeh. ~ And I want to get some natural bokeh. ~
here's mine! i shot this at f/2.0
some photos have the circles or shapes that they made with cut outs and then other photos have just blurred backgrounds. Bokeh is the out of focus of DOF.