Point a light source like a house lamp or flashlight at the crumpled foil to create lots of small reflections. Gently crumple a large piece of tin foil and fix it to a sturdy piece of paper or foam board. This will make your image have a shallow depth of field. We want to set the camera to an aperture in the low range, somewhere between f/2.8 or f/5.6. This is usually marked on cameras as “Av” mode. Sturdy backing like cardboard, foam board or construction paperĬhange your camera’s settings so you can adjust the aperture (or f-stop).
Lots of materials work well for creating bokeh, from colored foil to holiday lights work, but we love the classic look of plain tin foil paired with this vintage camera. This means that your foreground, or the object or person in front, will be in focus and the rest of the photograph, especially the background, will be out of focus and blurry. To create amazing bokeh images you want to have a shallow depth of field. Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects in the image. In order to understand how to create bokeh in your images we first need to talk about depth of field.
Bokeh (boh-kay) is the word that describes the beautiful, softly blurred points of lights in the background of an image.
