Gotta Love that Bokeh!

Say WHAT?

 

What is Bokeh you say?

 

(I know, I had NO idea what it was either until I started into photography for reals).

 

Bokeh means "blur"...it is when you do a closeup of your main subject and purposely blur

the background....

and if you want to experiment,

you can be creative with your bokeh

by making a lens cover for your camera

lens in shapes....

 

 

Here are some we did in photography class a few weeks ago!

Believe it or not, I hung mini Christmas lights in the background behind these objects, but
I cut out a "fake" lens cover with a snowflake design in the middle
and used a rubber band to hold it around my lens and snapped away...
and
THIS
is what you get!:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, I used a homemade lens

where I cut out a little heart

in the middle

and rubber banded it

around and in front of my lens

and got

THIS!!!:

Now?

 

 

NOW?

I am bugging all my scrapbooking friends

to borrow their

cutouts to make more homemade lens...

 

I think I have "bokeh FEVER"!!!!