adventures in “custom bokeh”
December 8, 2008 | Filed Under Conceptual
We scaled back on decking the halls this year since we are going to be leaving for vacation and won’t be home for the holidays. I did still put up the tree, though, and snapped the obligatory “This is what the place looked like in 2008″ pics. Then, well past the hour I ought to have been sleeping, I was instead playing around with homemade filters. I cut out some star, heart, pine cone and diamond shapes and then moved on to experimenting with cake decorating tips to some interesting effects.
Our tree:
Blurred focus, with cake decorating tip “filter” over lens:
Hearts and pine cones:
Star & moon effect with a cake decorating tip:
Diamonds and stars:
No gimmicks here, just a shot of my favorite ornament:
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I love your tree. I’m thinking about doing a custom bokeh in a couple of ceremony shots during my December 20th wedding. There’ll be candlelight and a Christmas tree in the church, so it there will be plenty of lights to bokeh. I just can’t decide what shape – hearts are the most obvious, I guess.
Love ur experiments, man! Do give us an insider’s note as to how u do it! Self-made filters, is it???
Cheers…
Thanks! Yes, everything except the swirly stars were made by cutting shapes out of cardstock and putting them over the lens. The swirly stars were actually accomplished by placing a disk-like cake decorating tip over the lens opening, believe it or not. I was curious what effect it would produce and I kind of dug it.