photoextremist.... This photography bokeh tutorial will show you how to take a picture with a defocused background using a DSLR camera and shallow depth of field.
जाने इमेज के बैकग्राउंड को ब्लर करके उसमें कैसे बोके/पोट्रेट इफ़ेक्ट डाल सकते हैं, वो भी एक सिंगल कैमरा फ़ोन से । ज्यादा जानकारी के लिए देखें ये वीडियो । ruclips.net/video/TlQ5x9zDTys/видео.html Many videos coming soon... SUBSCRIBE THE CHANNEL Hit The Bell 🛎 Icon 👍Like 💬Comment & 🙏Support Thank You.. 👍👍👍👌👌🤗
Now this is how photography tutorials should be done. Awesome! I've already been aware how to get bokeh with my camera and lenses, but your video popped up as suggestion and here is the fun fact... I've been aware of it because you taught me how to do it, with this video a few years. You do a great job to introduce people into photography techniques!
Such an amazing video. I'm glad you shared this technique. I shot my first bokeh photo using cheap Christmas lights and a panasonic g7 with a 42.5mm 1.7 came out great thanks again!
For beginners: remember that Bokeh on Full Frame cameras looks different from Bokeh on APS-C and Micro 4/3s cameras. On a smaller sensor, a wider aperture lets in just as much light as on a full-frame camera, but you get less background blur. There are plenty of good videos out there demonstrating this. And as this video demonstrates, aperture and sensor size aren't the only things to consider. The distance of the background makes a *huge* difference. If your subject is standing with a faraway vista behind them, you can get background blur even at F11. And the longer your focal lenght, the more pronounced this effect is. One last touch. Having a light source on your subject also helps with foreground/background separation. It can give your subject more visual "value" and create more contrast between the edges of the subject and the out-of-focus background. If you want that effect of the subject looking as if it's popping out of the background, the lighting is arguably more important than the blur. Don't have a light at hand? Pick a dark background! The effect in this video would have been much less impressive if the door where the lights hang was white. The deep brown really helped the photos.
Thank you for the tutorial-- very helpful! I noticed you were able to adjust the brightness from time to time while filming -- is this a feature on all Nikon cameras? I was curious as to how you were able to do that, like when you lowered the brightness to show us on the camera your shot of the bokeh.
I noticed this too, so I took a good look at my tripod and found that I can mount my camera sideways on the mounting plate. Now to tip sideways I do what normally causes the camera to tip up and down. It is a little awkward, but I can now do vertical shots easily. Hope this helps, Susie
Hi, Thanks for sharing this. I just got my camera a few weeks ago and thought this looked fairly easy, however you can see the light wires in all of the shots. I am using a 50mm prime set as you prescribed and have even tried slower shutter speeds thinking that might help but no luck. Thanks for any words of wisdom.
Hey man i just discovered you and wanted to thank you for speaking english for all us new click addicts, finally someone i can understand. keep making vids
Beginner in photography and completely excited to have found your Ebook on FB .. downloaded it today and know I will be absorbed with it and my new camera ... Love special effects and appreciate your simple explanations on how to ... Great stuff!
i love this video.. i`m abit new to photography and would like to try bokeh photography . . do you think i could still pull it off with a d3100 with 18-55mm kit lens ? and another question , can other colored paper work as well , or just black paper only ?
When I got into photography back in the late 60's, we didn't have bokeh--all we had was "Nice background!" Thankfully, it has a name and even more thankfully, some of those old preset lenses with lots of curved diaphragm blades make for some very nice bokeh. Especially longer lenses paired with extension tubes. Very good vid! Thanks!
The bokeh on my old Minolta-Rokkor 58mm f1.4 lens is amazingly soft. Great technique you have here. I knew it was a great pc. of glass as Minolta built some lenses for Leica. Kodak invented the digital camera and is out of the camera business. Minolta invented TTL and autofocus and sold it's camera division to Sony. Canon and Nikon are the big two now, I went w/ Canon. Thanks, great video.
Dont need to tell you what you already know, But I will anyway. The photos at the end of the tutorial are EXTREAMLY AWSOME !! are they all yours? and I love the way you used the lights to create the scenarios, really cool, you gave me some ideas to play with in my young photography adventure. Thanks.
very good example, thanks! I want to start shooting better bokeh. I can get the new tamron 70-300 for a really good price (special opportunity) or the 50mm 1.8d which is really cheap. Which would you recommend for a better bokeh?
Awesome tut and love the photos. COuld you show how in he world did you create the scene to take the last photo with the bubbles. I know they aren't bubbles it's the Christmas colorful lights, but how did you set that up?
Thanks for the video. How much did you get your tripod for? Could you recommend some good tripods for Nikon D5100 under $100? I'm also looking for a remote. What would you recommend.. a wireless or a wired?
did you set the shutter speed as well? because if you let the camera set it for you it kinda panics and sets it really high, if it has done this then dont hold it yourself, always rest it on something as it will pick up movement. Hope this helps
are u a good photographer?? u know the technical stuff and how to use a DSLR? maybe u can get a canon 1100d/Rebel T3?? it isnt too expensive and a good starter DSLR..
Question... I plan to get a Nikkon D5100 within a couple weeks or so and would love to do this. Must I get a Nikkor f/1.8 50mm for this? Or can i just use the settings you gave? #soontobenewbie
Thanks for all the great tutorial man!! I've learned so much from your videos. I'm just curious about how you managed to get the edges of your shot so dark.. Did you do it post? Most other imgages at the end of the video also have a similar composition. the subject and the bokeh are the only two things you see.
Hi, I was wondering if you knew if it was possible to do this with a camera that's lens only go to 24x? We have been trying to do this in my school photography class and because I don't have the school's fancy camera I was going to try to practice with my Fujifilm.
Great video! I'm having a problem though. I set the ISO at 200 and the aperture at f5.6 (lowest). When i take the shot, it takes huge amount of time to capture the shot and once the picture comes out, its very blurry. Am i doing something incorrectly?
In common usage, the terms are interchangeable. But technically, there is a difference. F/Stop is the unit of measurement describing the size of the aperture. The aperture, of course, is the actual opening created by the diaphragm blades in the lens.
@PhotoExtremist yeah, seems really nice. i'm looking for a camcorder, but i'm very interested in the dslr camera cause it sounds better to make short movies...(i'd like to film with focus changing u know?) i'm very new in the camera world! sorry my bad english!
@PhotoExtremist it was written in the roman alphabet as bokeh, but the "e" sound in Japanese is closest the english "ay". The 'H" is the added at the end to show that the word has 2 syllables instead of being "boke", like "spoke". source: Wikipedia [e̞] This is a pure e, unlike the English "ay", which is a diphthong. An example. [ple̞ː] 'play' is similar the the "eh" in "bokeh". Think if it as "bowquet", like bow + the quet from "Bouquet" of flowers.
@CHERUB47 The hexagonal effect is created by not setting your apeture to its widest setting. Any number higher than wide open (lowest number) will produces a hexagonal effect. A variable apeture might also be your problem.
I just bought this intresting lens that maintains 2.8 through all zoom points but it's still variable. I want to find more lens like that. What are they called?
Origin The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality". The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.[9] The term bokashi (暈かし) is related, meaning intentional blurring or gradation.
@22soultaker Switch it out of "green" mode and into Av. Crank the little dial on the top to the left as far as you can go, that will be your widest aperature (smallest F stop number). Focus on your subject and click. Your background will be more blurry. To compare, crank the dial the other way to a small aperature (big number) and the background will be in focus. You'll need more light or slower shutter for that.
You can also stop your lens down by one or two steps, and you will see octagons, heptagons or hexagons, depending on the number of diaphram blades in the lens. I don't think that's very beautiful, but it might be the effect you're after. On a related note, Lensbaby has special effect lenses that allow you to use custom aperture blades that can have some kind of shape in them. That shape will show up instead of these so-called "bokehballs".
So the aperture setting for the 50mm and 200mm are opposite when you were composing your shot? With the 50mm you had it 1.8 where with the 200mm it was the extreme opposite.
@CHERUB47 The hexagonal effect is created by not setting your apeture to its widest setting. Any number higher than wide open (lowest number) will produces a hexagonal effect.
At only around US $200 the Nikon 50mm f/1.8G AF-S would work great on a D5100 as a beginner lens, and it would allow you to do depth of field tricks like this. With lenses that only allow for smaller apertures like f/3.5 you would have trouble doing things like this as easily unless, as Evan suggested, you have a zoom lens like a 200 or 300mm. Search RUclips for bokeh and watch a few videos once you get your camera and get more familiar with it and you will catch on. Have fun!
@LAtrailers I would get a 50mm 1.8 lens, its a great little lens even if you aren't doing shots like this, great in low light. I'm guessing if you're using the 18-55 kit lens that's the only one you have, so the 50 1.8 makes for a really good second lens. Cheap too, in fact I think it's the cheapest lens Canon makes. So you don't necessarily need it, but you should get it!
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Now this is how photography tutorials should be done. Awesome! I've already been aware how to get bokeh with my camera and lenses, but your video popped up as suggestion and here is the fun fact... I've been aware of it because you taught me how to do it, with this video a few years. You do a great job to introduce people into photography techniques!
I am a complete fan of urs now... gosh am so addicted to your videos!! You are a creative genius!
can i click bokeh with Nikon L310 Point and Shoot ?
pls reply asap
Good instructional video - you did a great job ! Your presentation was simple and very easy to follow. Can't wait to try it.
Such an amazing video. I'm glad you shared this technique. I shot my first bokeh photo using cheap Christmas lights and a panasonic g7 with a 42.5mm 1.7 came out great thanks again!
Proof that having all the latest kit doesn't necessarily make you a great photographer. Creative stuff and well captured.
For beginners: remember that Bokeh on Full Frame cameras looks different from Bokeh on APS-C and Micro 4/3s cameras. On a smaller sensor, a wider aperture lets in just as much light as on a full-frame camera, but you get less background blur. There are plenty of good videos out there demonstrating this.
And as this video demonstrates, aperture and sensor size aren't the only things to consider. The distance of the background makes a *huge* difference. If your subject is standing with a faraway vista behind them, you can get background blur even at F11. And the longer your focal lenght, the more pronounced this effect is.
One last touch. Having a light source on your subject also helps with foreground/background separation. It can give your subject more visual "value" and create more contrast between the edges of the subject and the out-of-focus background. If you want that effect of the subject looking as if it's popping out of the background, the lighting is arguably more important than the blur.
Don't have a light at hand? Pick a dark background! The effect in this video would have been much less impressive if the door where the lights hang was white. The deep brown really helped the photos.
Really good, this can be used on more, I've started doing this at wedding shoots with excellent results
Thank you for the tutorial-- very helpful! I noticed you were able to adjust the brightness from time to time while filming -- is this a feature on all Nikon cameras? I was curious as to how you were able to do that, like when you lowered the brightness to show us on the camera your shot of the bokeh.
can u pls give me revie of Nikon L310 Point and Shoot
I noticed this too, so I took a good look at my tripod and found that I can mount my camera sideways on the mounting plate. Now to tip sideways I do what normally causes the camera to tip up and down. It is a little awkward, but I can now do vertical shots easily. Hope this helps, Susie
Bokeh originates from Japan and the pronunciation of it is the one you laughed at the most.
+Ulprus Paris is also pronounced "Paree" but we don't say that.
+Dana Scully we don't say "boka" either.
In the Nepali language boka means goat. Haha.
But I agree, I pronounce it as Boh-kay.
+Sushant Thapaliya boka means more than a normal goat :D
yepp correct, last one is the true one.
Thanks -- I just subscribed to you. Your videos are great.
I just got my first SLR a couple of weeks ago.
I'm having sooo much fun!!
Thanks again!!
The coffee glass with the lights "oozing" out , was really nicely done ! liked it...
Hi, Thanks for sharing this. I just got my camera a few weeks ago and thought this looked fairly easy, however you can see the light wires in all of the shots. I am using a 50mm prime set as you prescribed and have even tried slower shutter speeds thinking that might help but no luck.
Thanks for any words of wisdom.
The tut vid was great... but your shots at the end of the vid were really amazing! Good job!!
Hey man i just discovered you and wanted to thank you for speaking english for all us new click addicts, finally someone i can understand.
keep making vids
Beginner in photography and completely excited to have found your Ebook on FB .. downloaded it today and know I will be absorbed with it and my new camera ... Love special effects and appreciate your simple explanations on how to ... Great stuff!
oh..i see...hope u get one some day...im waiting for one too...until then my nokia 808 will suffice..its just mindblowingly amazing...
i love this video.. i`m abit new to photography and would like to try bokeh photography . . do you think i could still pull it off with a d3100 with 18-55mm kit lens ? and another question , can other colored paper work as well , or just black paper only ?
When I got into photography back in the late 60's, we didn't have bokeh--all we had was "Nice background!" Thankfully, it has a name and even more thankfully, some of those old preset lenses with lots of curved diaphragm blades make for some very nice bokeh. Especially longer lenses paired with extension tubes. Very good vid! Thanks!
I started in 1971 w/ a Minolta SRT-101 w/ a 58mm f1.4 lens, great bokeh. Yep, shallow depth of field finally has a name !
I still have an SRT-200 and a 201 and a couple of 50/1.4's--great cameras and superb lenses!
I really enjoy your tutorials!! Very detailed, and your work is awesome! Keep the tutorials coming!
Very cool effects! thanks for sharing...especially now for the holidays!
Really appreciate this video. I was finally able to pull it off, but with a book instead. Looks great.
The bokeh on my old Minolta-Rokkor 58mm f1.4 lens is amazingly soft. Great technique you have here. I knew it was a great pc. of glass as Minolta built some lenses for Leica. Kodak invented the digital camera and is out of the camera business. Minolta invented TTL and autofocus and sold it's camera division to Sony. Canon and Nikon are the big two now, I went w/ Canon. Thanks, great video.
Thank you dude. You help a lot, people that got this talent around me here, don't like to teach you about these things, you share it, thanks again!
Dont need to tell you what you already know, But I will anyway. The photos at the end of the tutorial are EXTREAMLY AWSOME !! are they all yours? and I love the way you used the lights to create the scenarios, really cool, you gave me some ideas to play with in my young photography adventure. Thanks.
very good example, thanks!
I want to start shooting better bokeh. I can get the new tamron 70-300 for a really good price (special opportunity) or the 50mm 1.8d which is really cheap. Which would you recommend for a better bokeh?
LOVE THIS! I got my first DSLR yesterday! Super excited to have it =)
Great Tutorial- I like the details it helps to me understand your process more clearly. Thanks!
Awesome tut and love the photos. COuld you show how in he world did you create the scene to take the last photo with the bubbles. I know they aren't bubbles it's the Christmas colorful lights, but how did you set that up?
Thank you and this is a good set up for product shots so thank you man keep doing photography and teach people
this is so amazing! been trying to get a good bokeh photo for awhile and this really helped out!
Thanks for the video. How much did you get your tripod for? Could you recommend some good tripods for Nikon D5100 under $100?
I'm also looking for a remote. What would you recommend.. a wireless or a wired?
YURS EXPLANATION ABOUT THE SHOOT ARE SO COMPLETE!! thanks fo share! Wich lens is better 1.4 or f1.8?
did you set the shutter speed as well? because if you let the camera set it for you it kinda panics and sets it really high, if it has done this then dont hold it yourself, always rest it on something as it will pick up movement. Hope this helps
I thought I had my bokeh technique down packed. This video CLEARLY said other wise. I thank you for this video!
Thanks for posting this...great demonstration along with some useful examples. Thank you.
are u a good photographer?? u know the technical stuff and how to use a DSLR? maybe u can get a canon 1100d/Rebel T3?? it isnt too expensive and a good starter DSLR..
i love your channel !! you explain everything simply with humor haha thank you
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great skills man!!! the music at the end (acoustic) was great too!! its gonna be my next ringtone lol!
What camera were u using to film this seems pretty cool with the manual controls?
Thanx for the great tutorial. I also love the photos at the end demonstrating the technique. :)
Thanks for the tip will have a go at using Xmas lights and bokeh stencils this weekend.
Nice lens, i think its the same as mine...is it a tamron 18-200mm??
Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to make and post this video!
I have that same Jetson's notification noise! Nice video. Taught me a lot
Question... I plan to get a Nikkon D5100 within a couple weeks or so and would love to do this. Must I get a Nikkor f/1.8 50mm for this? Or can i just use the settings you gave? #soontobenewbie
This was one of the best videos I've seen! Thank you, I learned a lot in 6min 22seconds. 😊👍🏼🌟✨💖💫
Thanks for all the great tutorial man!! I've learned so much from your videos. I'm just curious about how you managed to get the edges of your shot so dark.. Did you do it post? Most other imgages at the end of the video also have a similar composition. the subject and the bokeh are the only two things you see.
its a D50 man!! it took me some time...but i finally got it!
Hi, I was wondering if you knew if it was possible to do this with a camera that's lens only go to 24x? We have been trying to do this in my school photography class and because I don't have the school's fancy camera I was going to try to practice with my Fujifilm.
Great video! I'm having a problem though. I set the ISO at 200 and the aperture at f5.6 (lowest). When i take the shot, it takes huge amount of time to capture the shot and once the picture comes out, its very blurry. Am i doing something incorrectly?
Thanks for the advice. Btw, how do I measure the focus dist of a lens? Is it determined by distance from subject to the front part of the lens?
that was brilliant, I only just got my first professional style camera, and I learned a lot here. Thank you ♥
Wooow ...awesome..learnt a new tip 😍😍😍
beautiful, i have a nikon l110 its not a DSLR its a bridge camera, do you think its possible to make a bokeh?
hey thanks for the help ! i was just wondering what you think of the 50mm f 1.8? in overall? thanks alot and please reply :D!
In common usage, the terms are interchangeable. But technically, there is a difference. F/Stop is the unit of measurement describing the size of the aperture. The aperture, of course, is the actual opening created by the diaphragm blades in the lens.
@PhotoExtremist yeah, seems really nice. i'm looking for a camcorder, but i'm very interested in the dslr camera cause it sounds better to make short movies...(i'd like to film with focus changing u know?) i'm very new in the camera world! sorry my bad english!
Good video and nice pics! But can you tell me where to get the music in the end?
cool design ideas~ the easy way with maximum results~ thanks for sharing~
Excellent, will this work on cannon model550 with a lens 18-55mm? Do you run course?
Nice tutorial. What body are you using ?
@PhotoExtremist it was written in the roman alphabet as bokeh, but the "e" sound in Japanese is closest the english "ay". The 'H" is the added at the end to show that the word has 2 syllables instead of being "boke", like "spoke".
source: Wikipedia
[e̞] This is a pure e, unlike the English "ay", which is a diphthong.
An example. [ple̞ː] 'play' is similar the the "eh" in "bokeh".
Think if it as "bowquet", like bow + the quet from "Bouquet" of flowers.
good lookin dude. thanks a lot. I am a novis photographer and i needed this boost. you rock.
@CHERUB47
The hexagonal effect is created by not setting your apeture to its widest setting. Any number higher than wide open (lowest number) will produces a hexagonal effect. A variable apeture might also be your problem.
So 16mm f/1.8 would work right too?
It's nice seeing these creative pics with bokeh.
Hey, what type of 50mm lens did you have. It looked odd. but great video btw :)
Hey there, can I get some awesome image by using 30mm f1.4? An your video is so helping me. Thanks
you can still use the kit lens for bokeh! You just need more distance between your subject and the light sources, and zoom in to your subject!
I just bought this intresting lens that maintains 2.8 through all zoom points but it's still variable. I want to find more lens like that. What are they called?
Evan i love your videos! i want to do the levatation pictures but im not sure how to downlaod a good photoshop. please help me!
Safiya got me here
instead of the studio flash with the umberella to light the foreground subject, could i use a softbox instead?
hi there. what sound recording system are you using. the sound reproduction is awesome!
Origin
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality". The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.[9] The term bokashi (暈かし) is related, meaning intentional blurring or gradation.
@22soultaker Switch it out of "green" mode and into Av. Crank the little dial on the top to the left as far as you can go, that will be your widest aperature (smallest F stop number). Focus on your subject and click. Your background will be more blurry. To compare, crank the dial the other way to a small aperature (big number) and the background will be in focus. You'll need more light or slower shutter for that.
AWESOME instructor!!! Thanks so much for what you do!
I love it. I'm going to try that right now!! Thanks
mind asking for a new user of a DSLR which model should i use and i prefer canon and most of the time i will be using AV setting
I've watched this years ago and here I am again in 2015
In 2020
Haribhau Bopte yup
You can also stop your lens down by one or two steps, and you will see octagons, heptagons or hexagons, depending on the number of diaphram blades in the lens. I don't think that's very beautiful, but it might be the effect you're after.
On a related note, Lensbaby has special effect lenses that allow you to use custom aperture blades that can have some kind of shape in them. That shape will show up instead of these so-called "bokehballs".
Very in depth & explanatory. Instantly subscribed!
Does this work for video as well? Like if by doing this method will it transfer just as well to video like a photo?
Wow I’ve never been creative with bokeh like that. Really cool.
You are really creative! Great!
On the first shot, did you use the 18-200mm tamron? if so, is the lens any good?
Thanks!
So the aperture setting for the 50mm and 200mm are opposite when you were composing your shot? With the 50mm you had it 1.8 where with the 200mm it was the extreme opposite.
👍Oh wow! This is the one of the first vids on here about bokeh. Thanks!
@PhotoExtremist As a camera noob. I assume its a type/technique such as water color for painting.
@CHERUB47
The hexagonal effect is created by not setting your apeture to its widest setting. Any number higher than wide open (lowest number) will produces a hexagonal effect.
you can check out manfrotto for these kinds of tripods. some of them have ball heads that allow for free range of moment
Thanks for the tutorial! Always wanted to know the proper method to do this.
This is really cool!!! I want to try it!
At only around US $200 the Nikon 50mm f/1.8G AF-S would work great on a D5100 as a beginner lens, and it would allow you to do depth of field tricks like this. With lenses that only allow for smaller apertures like f/3.5 you would have trouble doing things like this as easily unless, as Evan suggested, you have a zoom lens like a 200 or 300mm. Search RUclips for bokeh and watch a few videos once you get your camera and get more familiar with it and you will catch on. Have fun!
@LAtrailers I would get a 50mm 1.8 lens, its a great little lens even if you aren't doing shots like this, great in low light. I'm guessing if you're using the 18-55 kit lens that's the only one you have, so the 50 1.8 makes for a really good second lens. Cheap too, in fact I think it's the cheapest lens Canon makes.
So you don't necessarily need it, but you should get it!
Was that a reversing ring on the 50mm? I noticed the f stop didn't show on your display which is typical if you reversed the lens?