Make Custom Bokeh

Bokeh is basically out of focus areas on an image, usually this would be in a circular or hexagon shape as that is the shape of the blades that make the aperture inside the camera. By covering the lens with black card and cutting a shaped hole in the front we can manipulate the appearance of this bokeh in our images. To learn about bokeh see Bokeh.

In this page I share you how to make custom bokeh as you want to. But, before we make it, we must prepare some equipments and tools.

Here there are:

1. Cutter or Scissor

2. Black Hard Papers

3. Glue / Adhesive Paper /Tape

4. Fix Lens with large aperture (ex: EF-S 50 f/1.8, etc)

5. Tripod

This is just optional, but I recommend you to use tripod to avoid shake from you hand especially in low light.

6. Camera

If you have to completing equipment above, let's see the steps:

1. Cut the paper with scissors one part circle and one part rectangle. The circle paper must suitable with the lens diameters.
2. In the middle circle is punched with a paper form in accordance with what we want, like stars, hearts, butterflies or others.
3. Pairs of paper round with a square of paper with glue or adhesive.In the middle circle is punched with a paper form in accordance with what we want like stars, hearts, butterflies or the other.
4. Input front of the lens into the paper to look like the following picture.
5. Finish