Did you know that you can shape the aperture on your lens to create a unique, artistic background? I discovered a simple DIY method to shape the aperture – and the results were mesmerizing. By ...

Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig.Now we're back to ...

Create Your Own Bokeh [DIY Photography.net] Smarter Home & Living Never miss a story. Lindsey Ellefson Features editor. Get the latest smart home news, trends, and ... What's a bokeh you say?

Bokeh is a word to describe the quality and appearance of the out of focus areas in a photograph. In this tutorial I'll show you how to change the shape of the bokeh in your photographs by making ...

achieving it optically requires a fast lens with an aperture below 2.8 or preferably lower. It also depends on the focal length. An aperture of 5.6 may be quite enough for a 300 mm (full-frame) lens.

I transformed circular bokeh into heart shapes using a homemade aperture disc that I made using sticky tape and black paper ...