I'm Nicki Fitz-Gerald,
and you're watching AdoramaTV. Now if you are the kind creative photographer who
really likes to experiment with light and pattern, I think you're going to love what's
coming up next.
I'm going to show you three easy ways to create this slight blur
out-of-focus, effect called 'Bokeh', which is easier to create than it is to say.
I'm gonna show you how to do it all from the comfort of your own home.
AdoramaTV presents,
iPhotography with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
Bokeh is the Japanese word for blur, and it's those little
abstract shapes and out of focus part of an image, that is produced by the lens,
and it can really add some lovely magic to your photograph. Now traditionally,
it's created by the DSLR, but we can create it really easily with an iPhone.
I'm going to show you three easy ways to create this wonderful,
magical effect, and it is going to add some really unique character your photographs.
So let's look at the three easy ways to create bokeh.
Now, the first way is just use your camera, and
turn your Christmas tree lights on, so we turn those on, you can see the little lights are on there.
Use a dark background bokeh definitely works better in low light than dark background,
and what you need to do is use the lock focus, and what I mean by that
is click on your camera screen, lock and focus slightly in the distance about 12 inches away,
and then bring your camera back onto your little tree, now that's all out of focus,
which is brilliant because that's exactly what we need, and there you can see that
brilliant, lovely,
blurred effect, which is so magical and you can add that to other images, or just use it as
a picture in itself.
Now, at this point you can also go into the filters part, and it will give you nine different
filters, which you can choose from as well, and as this tree is changing color
it's giving up some really lovely, wonderful, random effects which are absolutely
superb. So that's the lock focus way of doing it.
Also try this outdoors, with lights far away, by reversing the process.
Launch the camera app, lock your exposure on something three to eight inches away,
then point your lens at your subject, perhaps a fairground, or tree lights in the distance,
and the lights will turn magically to bokeh shapes.
Now the second way you can do it, is actually using a lens,
and this will give you a much, much stronger affect.
I'm using my iPhone 5 here, with olloclip lens.
Now this lens, usually comes with wide-eye and
a fish-eye, but I'm using the macro part of it.
I'm just going to clip that onto the lens
on my camera there, and then, just point it at the tree,
you don't have to do any lock focusing, just point it at the tree,
and there you can see that beautiful, beautiful, blue, bokeh coming.
It changes colour, it changes again beautiful, abstract effect. These are really high
resolution pictures as well,
and finally, what you can do is actually use an app.
Now, this is cheating a bit, it's a bit lazy, but if you don't have the lights,
and you don't have the time you can just download an app.
Now one of my favorites and is 'Lumie'. Find 'Lumie'
by just doing a search, that's the easiest way to find anything on an iPhone.
Bring up the 'Lumie' app, click on the icon, the camera icon,
bring in a photograph, just a blank photograph will be fantastic.
Choose, then here you'll see the most amazing
lovely spread of, and selection
of wonderful bokeh effects. Now, I'm going to choose one of my favourites, which
is the glitter one, where is that gone?
Down here, ok, glitter, and there we go.
Instant bokeh, wonderful. Ok, again that's saved down as high resolution,
fantastic. Into your photo album, and then you can print that out as big as you like. Easy
ways, three easy ways to create bokeh on your iPhone.
So, using our 'Olloclip' lens, I'm going to show you how to create
really strong bokeh. Now if we look at these fairy lights behind us,
let's take a picture, and that looks pretty average.
Now when we stick our 'Olloclip' lens on, just get it on the right way, just stick it around the corner,
on there. Look at it now, if you look at that bokeh, it's really, really strong, and we can
choose different colors here as well. You can move it around, there's a nice golden one
there, look at that, that's how strong that is. Now that's using the
'Olloclip' lens. Now the other thing
we can do, is if you want to your own photograph, make it a bit more personal
is, we can blend a bokeh image we've made, our own one,
with a personal image of ours. So let's have a look, and we can use the 'Leonardo' app
to do this. So find 'Leonardo' right here, just type in 'Leonardo'.
Ok, and now we need to press the plus sign up there,
get into the photo library. Choose an image we want to blend, I know we've got
a little guitar up here which looks lovely.
So let's just find that image, here we've got the guitar.
Ok, we need to find another image, just click plus to bring in another photo, and
this time we are going to bring in our bokeh,
we need to make that fit, so let's just stretch that
over-the-top other image. Go back to 'layers',
and then click on the right hand side, and then you can see the two images there, but we are
going to blend them.
Click on normal, and this gives us lots of blending options.
Now this one looks really dreamy and nice. So let's click off there.
So we can see that we have blended that lovely bokeh with the guitar image, and made
our own unique image. We have taken the photograph of the guitar,
we have taken the photograph of the bokeh, and it's a magical image,
all created easily on the iPhone.
Hi, Nicki Fitz-Gerald here for Adorama. Be sure to check out Adorama's latest contest to win prizes!
I hope you have enjoyed the episode today,
and discovered some great ways to create your own bokeh. I hope you'll go out there, and
experiment with your own ways, and find new ways, perhaps in creating it. It's a really fun thing to do,
and it's really going to add some magic to your photographs. You can subscribe
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