By crafting a custom aperture disc – effectively a DIY bokeh filter – you can control the shape of blurred background lights. Hearts, stars, snowflakes – you name it.

With lenses today, one often gets exceptional sharpness and clarity. While this is something many photographers aspire to, there are some artists who prefer to shoot moody images rather than go beyond ...

Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig. Now we're back ...

Over at the photography enthusiast blog DIYPhotography.net, an interesting DIY project outlined in simple steps can create custom shapes for the highlights in your bokeh.

I transformed circular bokeh into heart shapes using a homemade aperture disc that I made using sticky tape and black paper ...

There are several custom bokeh options you can buy ready made, and there's even a Lensbaby kit. But where's the fun in buying when you can DIY? What you need: Digital SLR and lens (ideally with a ...

Bokeh is a photography term that’s a bit difficult to define but is basically soft, aesthetically pleasing background blur, often used to make a subject stand out. Also called “backgrou… ...

I read up on DIY bokeh filters and carefully constructed one of my own to mount on my 50mm lens, however, I did not enjoy the results as much as the standard bokeh results. This is a shot taken in ...