

Make It!: I've got my poster board, I have my lens, and a pencil. To give yourself the best chance of this working, you want the largest aperture possible you can get on your camera lens.ģ. We need to be able to see the silhouette of our cutout through the center of the lens and for us to do that, we need to make sure we have a very wide aperture. If we make it too small, then we won't be able to see the silhouette of our cutout. We want as wide as it can go, which is like f-stop 1.8 at least, because our cutout is going to need to be the replacement for those aperture blades. Depending on how big or small it is, that's called its f-stop and there's a number associated with each of these f-stops, as you can see. It has a bunch of little blades stacked on top of each other that, when they rotate, it opens and closes a hole in the middle. Inside our camera, is this little bit of device. Remember the other one got to 3.5, so we want something in this range where this hole, that we're seeing here, can get much wider. It's a 20 millimeter, and we can see that this gets to a 1.8. So 85, it can only get to 5.6 f-stop and when it's 15, it can only get to 3.5 and we want something better than that. It's 1585 because, I can see right here on the frontal lens it says, 3.5 is the lowest it gets, and it has a range to 5.6 because it's a zoom lens. You need a DSLR with a lens on it and I'll talk about that next. Also your point-and-shoot cameras will not work for this. Your iPhone or your cell phone camera will not work. You will need some poster board, craft knife of some kind, a little bit of tape and a fast lens and a DSLR. What You Need: First, let's cover what you will need for this project.
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I'll take you step by step on how to make it, and then some of the expectations and limitations of this effect so you can have the best chance of achieving it in your own photography and video. I will cover very basic topics to give you a general understanding of how this effect is being achieved so that you can better understand how to achieve it for yourself. As long as you have a DSLR, you can take this course. This course is intended for the very beginner Photographer or Filmographer. I encourage you to follow along and make your own custom shapes and share them in a class project. Create Stylized Bokeh Intro: Welcome to my course on creating stylized bokeh with your DSLR.
