The magic of blurred lights and how to achieve the bokeh effect

You’ve probably seen beautiful blurred panoramas of the city night in which lights seem like dazzling, colorful circles. Today we’re going to show you how to recreate this effect and even turn typical circles into fancy shapes!

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The coolest bokeh is one with lights in the background. Holiday lighting, street lights, neon signs, or car headlights are perfect for capturing an urban landscape. If you’re shooting inside, candles and wreaths are your best friends. In general, bokeh is any background blurring, it’s not all about turning lights into little circles. But we wanna focus specifically on these little circles ‘cuz they’re the reason we love this effect so much!

To recreate this stunning bokeh effect, you need a camera lens that will allow you set the f-stop lower than 2.8. Otherwise, it will be harder to achieve the flawless result you’re looking for. If you’re not sure a lens is worth $300 just for shooting bokeh material, take a more in-depth look at cheaper vintage gear from other countries, like the Helios 44-2 made in the USSR.

You don’t have to change the structure of your lens to give the aperture a specific shape. Making a stencil is enough. To test your stencil, take a number of test shots with a widely opened aperture and the stencil pressed tightly against the lens. If everything looks ok, fasten the stencil to your camera with a piece of tape, and get shooting!

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Bokeh - The term has been used since at least 1996, [1] with the spelling bokeh introduced by editor Mike Johnston in the March–April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, Johnston writing “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.

Bokeh is a term, originally from Japanese (暈す-to blur; or ぼけ), that has come to mean the subjective aesthetic quality of the out of focus area of an image.  Two key terms in this definition are SUBJECTIVE and IMAGE.

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