Homemade Bokeh Filter

[tommedley]

I had a go with a homemade star bokeh filter. I'm using it on a kit 18-55m lens, so the results aren't as good as what you'd get with a better lens, but it's still good fun.

[pjflan7]

interesting effects with your cutout

[JustJim]

I love this time of year. People all over the place put up all these pretty lights just for photographers to make bokeh shots! Bless 'em.

Well, you've got your filter and it obviously works nicely. Get someone/thing in the foreground and start shooting! Enjoy, but don't forget to come back and share the results.

[FoG]

These are great I tried this with a kit lens and it was an epic fail how big was the cut out you used out of interest ?? so I can try again as have some ideas I want to do but gave up when the thing would not behave lol

Great set well done this is way harder than it looks

[tommedley]

Very Small

Here's a photo

[Fred flyfisher]

I think these are really cool. If you don't mind, can you tell us how you did it? Thanks

[tommedley]

Look at the picture in my last post, that is most of the explanation! I had to zoom in fully for the effect to work, and I used a 1/6s exposure, f/5.6 (the minimum my lens will go to at full zoom), ISO 1600.

[PWhite214]

I followed the link for the bokeh, saw several very nice photos Keep them coming

Phil