![]() ![]() If you are shooting upwards at too steep an angle it often won’t look right. To make the angle towards your subject more flattering, it is often a good idea to get them to come down to ground level as well. To make the technique work with this type of flower you often need to lay down on the ground to get a different type of angle. For example, bluebells can provide a lovely colour but a clearly very short plants. You may wish to alter your angle for shooting in order to make the most of low level flowers. Good candidates can be flowers such as lavender, rapeseed, bluebells, rhododendrons, etc. Bright green, especially on a face, risks making someone look less than healthy! Choose colours that will complement your subject and their clothing if at all possible. You may also like to think about which colours work well. A little overlap is fine, but you don’t want their face obscured. Make sure that you leave a gap in between the foreground bokeh so that your subject is clearly visible. Normally this is easier to achieve with bunches of flowers rather than trying to use a large block of colour like a large leaf or a single flower. It needs to be very close to the lens so that the camera sees it as fully blurred when you are focussed on your subject. To create foreground bokeh you need something between yourself and the subject. For more detail on how to blur your backgrounds successfully you might like to read our post on how to take great portraits outdoors. To do this, use a wide aperture on a telephoto lens with your subject a good distance from the background. Our subject will be sandwiched between a soft, blurred foreground and background.įirst of all, you need to create background bokeh. ![]() I call this a double bokeh effect because we will create both foreground bokeh and background bokeh. It is easier to get a smoother bokeh using a wide aperture and a longer (telephoto) lens. This isn’t an accidental out of focus but a deliberate way to soften the scene and draw more attention to your subject. The term “bokeh” is used to refer to the soft, blurry parts of a photo. In this post we will look at how to create a double bokeh effect for portrait photos with a simple technique. Create a Double Bokeh Effect for Portrait Photos ![]()
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