Create a Custom Bokeh for Crazy Cool Photo Effects
Create bokeh in whatever shape you want with 3D printed lens cover.
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How-To: Create Sparkly Bokeh Effects in Your Photos
We’ve mentioned “Bokeh” here before – it’s a photography technique that involves, basically, interesting blurring. (In fact, the term comes from the Japanese word boke-aji, meaning, “blur quality.”) MAKE’s Matt Richardson has a great how-to video showing you how easy it is to create bokeh effects in any shape you like – all you need […]
Skill Builder: Bokeh Photography Effect
“Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word for “blur” or “haze.” It’s used to describe the quality of the out of focus areas of a photograph. If you’ve ever read a photography forum, you’ll know that the word is often used to describe how a particular lens handles out of focus points of light. You can […]
Create Bokeh Effect with Simple Camera Mod
Over on Make: Projects, our DIY library, Sindri Diego of Iceland shares a fun and simple camera mod to produce cool bokeh effects. Bokeh comes from the Japanese word for “blur,” and by making a cover for your lens, you can snap shots where the blurred lights in your image take on whatever shape you […]
Mod your camera and your microscope on Make: Projects
Two fun and simple project contributions to Make: Projects this week both involve mods. The first is the above-pictured retrofitted microscope by Christoph Ziimmermann (nuess0r) from Switzerland. Christoph had access to a solid, classic microscope, but wanted to amp up its usability by adding lights. The mod ended up costing him a paltry $8. The […]
DIY Bokeh lens hood for stylish blurring
Before: After: I haven’t tried this, so I hope I’m not being hoodwinked. This article on DIYPhotography shows how to cut out a sort of lens gobo to shape high contrast parts of an out-of-focus photograph. Bonus points for the first person to build a “MAKE:” bokeh one letter at a time and post the […]
