Creative Aperture Throwdown

[Robert Apple]

With all the lights this time of year , it is the perfect season for this and yo can do it with any lens, here are a couple tutorials Light Stalking has shared in the past in the Creative Bokeh Guide.
How to Create a DIY Filter for Custom Bokeh Shapes

How to: Shapes in Bokeh Photography

[Robert Apple]

I anchored the camera and shot this 7 times with different apertures in a lens baby double glass and blended the bokeh together , that light was from some battery operated string lights behind the manger.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Very beautiful Robert 🙂

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Dahlia.

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Dahlia.

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Epic!

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Rob

[Marty E]

Wow! Magnificent, Robert!

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Marty

[Stefanie Markham]

Thanks for this Robert.

[Robert Apple]

Your welcome Stefanie.

[Tersha]

Lovely start Robert!

Here’s an oldie, I need to get on and do some fresh ones.

[Robert Apple]

Very nice color scheme Diane.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Sweet photo Diane 🙂

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Stunner @tersha

[Tersha]

Thanks Rob!

[Robert Apple]

Froggy filled Bokeh.

Just cut new apertures tonight, a couple test runs.

[Robert Apple]

And one with a gear design provided by Diane @tersha, made by her partner, which produced a totally unexpected flower effect.

[Ceci Snow]

[Tersha]

`very nice Ceci.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Beautiful warm photo Ceci 🙂

[Ceci Snow]

Thank you.

[Robert Apple]

Nice Bokeh Ceci @imagesbyceci

[Ceci Snow]

Thanks.

[Robert Apple]

Trying out a Rorschach Inkblot design.
Under The Deck.

A touch of ICM

A Inkblot Storm.

[Tersha]

Interesting set Robert.

[Pat Garrett]

This was my attempt at cutting a star in paper and taping it over my lens – I got birds instead!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

The bird bokeh looks cute Pat 🙂

[Stefanie Markham]

This is really cool.  You have inspired me to try this challenge.

[Pat Garrett]

I had a little better luck with a heart

[Tersha]

These are both really good Pat, little birds are sweet and the hearts look perfect!

[Robert Apple]

I like them both Pat

[Pat Garrett]

Thank, Robert and Diane.

[Tersha]

Starry bokeh tree

[Robert Apple]

That’s Inspirational Diane, I’m going to have to try that one.

 

[Tersha]

Thanks Robert. It was a strange metal tree covered completely in small lights. The bokeh were made using a petzval lens.

[Pat Garrett]

That pretty cool.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow! This one is really beautiful Diane 🙂

[Anne Hornsby]

Wonderful image, Diane.  I’ll have to read about a petzval lens and the effects others are using.

 

[Robert Apple]

I tried one of my Angel Apertures on my own tree, not near as many lights.

[Tersha]

An angel tree!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Looks beautiful Robert 🙂

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Dahlia.

[Stefanie Markham]

Love this!

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Stefanie

[Tersha]

Just bokeh

all with Lensbaby creative apertures.

[Robert Apple]

Cool Diane, I’ve used the bird aperture to do some funky wild flower Photography.

[Tersha]

Thanks Robert, you should post your wild flower pics.

[Tersha]

an oldie

petzval lens

[Robert Apple]

I remember this, an oldie, but a goodie

[Robert Apple]

Visiting Story Book Island in South Dakota with a lensbaby composer pro fitted with the classic double glass and a custom Angel Aperture.

Fenced In

[Robert Apple]

The Entrance in Angels

[Robert Apple]

Tilt Shift Pumpkin

[Tersha]

Glass of sunshine

[Robert Apple]

Thats a creative Idea to be sure Diane, I like it.

[Tersha]

Thanks Robert.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

This is a creative shot Diane. Looks beautiful 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia.

[Tersha]

Star bokeh tree

Lensbaby 3G + star aperture

[Robert Apple]

Now that’s funky, the 3G is a cool lens body set up, I have a couple control freaks which was the next version up, I wish they still made it. Good used ones are hard to come by.

[Tersha]

Thanks, We found this online, and Robert bought it for me as a late xmas pressie, it cost £24!

[Robert Apple]

I just acquired a 3G as well , and inserted a Grey Wolf Foot print Aperture in it and shot this Dandelion, and then string lights to illustrate the Pattern.

[Tersha]

Glad that you got the 3G, it’s a good lens. I like both images above, the effect behind the dandelion is cool.

[Tersha]

small squares aperture

moth aperture

[Robert Apple]

They Both look great Diane , and makes me feel a bit warmer, we are in the midst of a fairly serious blizzard, the green and the blooms help off set it.

[Tersha]

Thanks Robert, glad they warmed you.

[Tersha]

Spot the frog

custom aperture plate made by Robert.

[Robert Apple]

Pretty cool use of that one Diane.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Looks very dreamy Diane 🙂

[Tersha]

Leaf bokeh

[Robert Apple]

Love that Background. That’s really cool Diane.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Stunning leaf bokeh Diane. Love the colours too 🙂

[Robert Apple]

I’m going to be adding to this more posts shot with this aperture as I get through the photos, all titled Hauling Azz based on the Aperture used and mounted in a lensbaby 3G, the first photo as an example, the thing about these apertures goes beyond just being able to see the particular design but how it affects the diffused bokeh where a pattern isn’t evident.

that white is a snow drift, the dandelions cant even wait for all that to melt.


the pair tree is threatening to bloom.

[Robert Apple]

A Few more from the Hauling Azz series, the Dogs Just wanted to be involved, particularly Molly Bee.


and Guinness wondering why I’m laying on the Ground and is there a cuddle involved.

[Robert Apple]

the last from the series Hauling Azz

A Cottonwood leaf on the a fore mentioned snow drift

and finally as the snow melted and ran onto the lower deck it provided a nice reflection and some bright spots to illustrate the shape of the bokeh

and being on Concrete a creation a of a photo graphical Hiway

[Tersha]

Great series Robert, I agree about the different effects depending on light. dof etc. They are really interesting to experiment with. Loving the leaf and the concrete creation. Molly Bee is sweet, she looks so curious.

[Robert Apple]

Thanks Diane

[Tersha]

[Robert Apple]

That’s interesting, I like that. Have you tried shooting multiple exposure with the camera fixed and turning the aperture at different angles to get the moth going different directions and doing masked stacking to isolate them, kind of like I did with the manger scene. Which give just gave me the idea of swapping apertures to add multiple bugs

[Tersha]

Sounds interesting, there’s so many ideas to try out. I’ll have to use a tripod to try what you said about different angles.

[Tersha]

not sharp, but I like the dreamy effect

[Robert Apple]

It does suit it well Diane.

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