Okay, I'm obsessed. I tried to make another heart-shaped bokeh effect, but it didn't work. I guess I need a DSLR with a lens that goes down to a 1.8 F-stop. That's what's suggested by the people who are able to shape their bokeh effects with their own handmade lens hoods.
BUT I got two more pictures where the effect looks nice, and I wanted to share them with you.
It would be a lot more fun at night, when you can go somewhere that the pinpoints of light are multicolored, but these turned out pretty good. I'll keep working on it, and save up for a DSLR. :-)
I want you all to know: I tried. The challenge for today was to create your own bokeh, and to take a photo with it on your camera. I don't have a DSLR... I have a few digital point and shoot cameras, my Diana Lo-mo camera, and a regular SLR. However, it would take days to post a film photo, and the whole challenge is digital.... but I'll show you what I made, so you'll know that I really, really tried!
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| My hinky bokeh! |
Yes, it looks like a cupcake, but it's my handmade bokeh, in which I used a lot of Japanese craft tape to hold it together. My first heart-shaped hole was way too big...
So I tried to create a tinier hole, but it was hard to make a tiny heart with an X-acto knife. I did it, but I don't think it was small enough...
Anyway... this was a small bokeh, for my Canon PowerShot, which is NOT a DSLR, by the way.... but it's my one digital camera that had a lens that protruded from the body, so that I could put the bokeh on it. Wish it had worked! Anyway, I found a way to make a vignette! So that's kind of cool, right? :-)
Post Edit: I just looked at other people's photos, and found that they were doing daylight bokey effects without the use of the shaped bokeh. I misunderstood the project, ha ha! But I went ahead and tried to take some photos.... I think one was sort of successful. You need to have pinpoints of light in the background for the effect to be really good, and I barely had that.
If you click on either image, you'll see that the points of light in the background have turned into a geometric shape. That's the best type of bokeh effect. But it's hard to do with a point and shoot! I used the macro setting and I used the aperture priority setting, with the aperature opened to the largest size (smallest number) to get that effect.
What I was trying to do was this:
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It would be a lot more fun at night, when you can go somewhere that the pinpoints of light are multicolored, but these turned out pretty good. I'll keep working on it, and save up for a DSLR. :-)
