Fishie's Tutorials Series: Part 2

As Christmas is approaching, with everyone setting up their Christmas trees, these mandatory shots are coming back! And these shots are no other than the cliché yet beautiful "Christmas lights bokeh"!

Okay these aren't exactly bokeh-ish but yeah.

One of the most commonly seen photo is a collage of bokeh of the same object, but of different sizes. Now the question is, how do you take them?

First of all, you'll need a lens or camera that can focus manually.

Then, set it to Manual Focus. Turn your focus ring until you get the size of bokeh that you want!

Take 3 or more photos at the same spot 'cuz you do not want to have those photos having different angles.

For the collage, I usually use Diptic (on my iPhone. It's a paid app.) or Photoshop. Alternatively, you can also use any other apps that can make collages, such as PicsArt :)

Throw a filter over it, do some tweaks and TADA! You have THE Christmas tree bokeh collage!

You can also take photos of other things such as cityscape at night time.

CBD area at night

Taken with Canon 650D with 50mm f1.8, edited on Photoshop.

And yeah, that's the end of this simple tutorial. Happy bokeh-ing!

- Elsa Fishie :)

P.S. The Christmas tree isn't mine because I have yet to add in more stuffs onto my own tree :D