Very shallow depth of field. You can use manual mode or aperture priority. Set to widest setting f3.5-f2.8 or 2.0 depending on equipment. Your background or foreground should then become bokeh. If not put some distance between the two. If you want little specs of bokeh light use Christmas lights or garland. You can also shape your bokeh with a home filter.
Here are two examples of shaped bokeh. Both bokehs made with garland.
Here is the link for how to make the filters. Homemade Bokeh Filters
Just noticed the camera you are using. I don't know what it has for settings but if you can't use the ones I gave you above try using the macro mode to get your bokeh. I hope this helps and you can have some fun shooting bokeh.
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Hi there, just adding to the list of helpful comments, there are two ways you can get bokeh, either use a lens with a big aperture (i.e. 50mm f1.8, 85mm f1.4 etc.), or use a zoom lens at the longest focal length at the widest possible aperture.
Like Sondra pointed out, it is all about depth of field, both the options above will give it to you. I've shot bokeh with my 50mm f1.8 and at 300mm at f5.6.
bokeh is also the amount of blur in a photograph and lighting. I find that shooting something in the foreground or up close, gives you nice bokeh in the background. for example, my first photo: http://365project.org/bobbyj/365/2011-12-01
I had christmas lights at the back of a hallway, and put the scrabble letters on a stool right in front of my camera. by focusing on the tiles at a wide aperture, it defocused the lights at the back which gives you the bokeh effect.
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you need a wide open lens for a shallow depth of field and need to focus very carefull on what you want in focus
Here are two examples of shaped bokeh. Both bokehs made with garland.
Here is the link for how to make the filters.
Homemade Bokeh Filters
Like Sondra pointed out, it is all about depth of field, both the options above will give it to you. I've shot bokeh with my 50mm f1.8 and at 300mm at f5.6.
bokeh is also the amount of blur in a photograph and lighting. I find that shooting something in the foreground or up close, gives you nice bokeh in the background. for example, my first photo:
http://365project.org/bobbyj/365/2011-12-01
I had christmas lights at the back of a hallway, and put the scrabble letters on a stool right in front of my camera. by focusing on the tiles at a wide aperture, it defocused the lights at the back which gives you the bokeh effect.
hope that helps!
http://365project.org/misschuff/365/2010-05-28
Or other:
http://www.love-bug-blog.com/2011/12/photo-show-off-bokeh.html