TUTORIAL ♥♥
A lot of people asked me how special shaped bokehs are done. I decided
to put together a tutorial and explain things in details.
This is a single shot out of the camera! Nothing was added in Photoshop.
Special thanks to Tony who helped me with the picture formatting!
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This photo was taken on December 9, 2008 using a Canon EOS 5D.
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- Virgonc -, SHUN [iamtekn], Jai Yung, Antonello!, and 168 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Cynthia.Lou (42 months ago | reply)
1. Get your tools ready. A piece of paper *preferably black, pen and cutting tools.
2. Making the filter. You can make a small filter and fit it right onto your lens like I do, or you can also make a larger “lens hood” that wraps around. Whichever way you prefer.
3. Draw your desired shape right in the middle of the circle. It has to be small. Mine is about half an inch in diameter.
4. Cut out the shape. You’re ready to shoot.
5. Bearkeh!
6. You can also do other shapes
7. And get these :D
5JǿǾǿГ [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)
yaaaaaaaaaaay!
Fantastic tutorial, Cynthia! So clever!
James Yeung (42 months ago | reply)
very interesting! thanks for the tutorial!
Francis G. aka FG (42 months ago | reply)
I know this vignetting trick since a while, but never tried it. Really nice.
FG
alonsodr (42 months ago | reply)
Hehe... great work, my friend
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- Virgonc - (42 months ago | reply)
wow bearbokeh!!! another lovely bear photo :))) like it :))
eightsecond* (42 months ago | reply)
great filter!! :) thank you for share !!
Jai Yung (42 months ago | reply)
Great DIY work! Love the teddy.
olsonraelene (42 months ago | reply)
woot! That was well done for explanation! thank you!
Antonello! (42 months ago | reply)
Ahhh!!! Beautiful bearkeh...and great tutorial!!! Thanks!!
jh_hj (42 months ago | reply)
Great. I am going to try it. Thanks.
Jonė Reed (42 months ago | reply)
oh loving your shapekehs! great tutorial too!
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Miss*K (42 months ago | reply)
This is so cool! I really wish I could do it but I don't have a DSLR so I don't think it would work on my camera =[
Thanks for the tutorial....I was wondering how you did it!
| Z E R O | (42 months ago | reply)
Bearkeh FREAKING ROCKS!!!! *ahem* sorry...got a little carried away there:|
AnotherSaru (42 months ago | reply)
Oh that was really helpful and a cool lesson. I will have to try it sometime. The result was is wonderful! =D
F a b i o (42 months ago | reply)
Wow! that's the best Shaped Bokeh tutorial on flickr!
:-D
clairepennphoto (42 months ago | reply)
Brilliant bearkeh! Cynthia you are a darling. I'm going to try this at the weekend!!! xxx
Darius twin (42 months ago | reply)
Great tutorial! :)
Alex Dram (42 months ago | reply)
Hey, I knew that! Honestly!
The bearkeh is teh awesum anyway :))
Victor Oliveira (42 months ago | reply)
I love it!
I always say to myself to this with bokeh.. but I always forgot! :P
Marco Cogo <3 (42 months ago | reply)
Great! And thank you for the tutorial!
Tara.G. (42 months ago | reply)
you nailed it girl! i'm still yet to get to these...i can't wait...
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TimHeyer [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the tutorial! Gonna have to try this myself. Question - why do you have them all folded in half?
~ cнιρcнιrιρ (42 months ago | reply)
haha,coool! ;)
Monsieur Nounou (42 months ago | reply)
Waw ! Thank you for the explanation ... I think i'm going to do this to show good pictures to my children .... Thanks a lot !
josué colón [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)
thats so cool. i wanna try that.
Shadow&Soul (42 months ago | reply)
This is sooo cute! ;) hehe I love using bokeh shapes!! ;)
'Scott' (42 months ago | reply)
That is great! Thanks for the lesson, Cynthia!
Tara.G. (42 months ago | reply)
that got me going...i tried it once before but it worked today ..yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mingshah (42 months ago | reply)
Interesting, I will have to play with this ones, till now I just had boring pictures just how I took them, din't play around in Photoshop with them besides doing the RAW to JPG.
Curious how far you could go with this selfmade bokeh filters. Thanks for the inspiration.
●○※Yung.Hao※○● (42 months ago | reply)
ＳＯ ＣＵＴＥ！
the photographs and mind of (42 months ago | reply)
awesome tutorial! i'm so excited to try this!
oreofuzz (42 months ago | reply)
Thank you for sharing your tutorial. It makes great sense. As I've said before, you are very creative. It's nice of you to share that with us.
mrluilou (42 months ago | reply)
great tutorial!
dxsibo o(╥_╥)o (42 months ago | reply)
very nicely done tutorial!!! and cute bear!!!
klovir (42 months ago | reply)
Thanks for sharing your tricks and secret! I can't wait to try it out soon!
Milan Teh (42 months ago | reply)
Thanks for sharing! This rocks
Hobbles (42 months ago | reply)
These are great! Thanks for the tutorial! How did you manage to get the bear in focus though? Is it two different photos put together in photoshop?
-Side note
this is one i took last year, used a bear as well. Check it out! www.flickr.com/photos/23947191@N06/2621572225 /
swinspeed (42 months ago | reply)
veri coooll....fantastic tutorial...
Grey Samaritan (42 months ago | reply)
i like the cutting tools you use... cool.
w3i_yu (42 months ago | reply)
Wow this is damn cool gonna go try it this weekend :P
©Komatoes (42 months ago | reply)
Even I can follow that tutorial! =) Nicely done!
pimousse3000 (42 months ago | reply)
one more original photo! Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I'll try ASAP!
--->Dama<--- (42 months ago | reply)
great!!!:) i love your photo!!!
Orsi Gyüre (42 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the tutorial!! It's great!
..and a lovely pic with the bears... :))
Urška Majer (42 months ago | reply)
wow this is great! thank you soo much:)
Cynthia.Lou (42 months ago | reply)
I'm sooooo glad you guys found my tutorial helpful! I wish there were more of those on Flickr because a lot of times I need some guidance as well.
Love.
Tara, that is an awesome image! Great job :)
No photoshop was used for this photo. It came out of the camera like this. I focused on the bear, and the background lights of course became blurry.
Cute bear you have, thanks for sharing.
Leif the happy [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)
Clever
Nicolas Sosnowiez (42 months ago | reply)
this is so sweet ! nice !
tirong (42 months ago | reply)
Will try that. Thanks for the info! : )