I "heart" Shanghai

Posted by kylie (Shanghai, China) on 4 September 2008 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

I was reading about a technique to get shaped bokeh in your images and thought i would give it a go. These hearts are actually the cars headlights and taillights as I walked home last night. This is my first attempt at it. I have some ideas about what else I can do using shapes, but it might take me some time to figure out how to do it! :-)

Oh and BTW, I "heart" Shanghai!

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Comments (16)

Kylie Greenan from Australia

Far out, this is awesome, please share with us how you did this, I "LOVE" this image, so creative, with such pretty colours, congratulations K!

4 Sep 2008 5:55am

@Kylie Greenan: Here is the link, you will see I havent deviated much from the standard here while I conducted this little experiment... If you give it a go too, would love to see the results!
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh

Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

This is soooo cool Kylie! Bravo to you for trying something new and having such a great outcome! It really is very pretty:-)

4 Sep 2008 6:43am

Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium

good work - I've been meaning to try this effect - the hearts look great

4 Sep 2008 7:50am

chrissy from London, United Kingdom

Wow what a great effect, love the colours,well tried out
chrissy

4 Sep 2008 7:56am

Aaron Schmidt from Auckland, New Zealand

Very cool ... worked like a charm. Would love to see more variations on this. =)

4 Sep 2008 8:38am

Taina from Madrid, Spain

Love the effect and the colours , and is your first attempt ! I can't wait to see what other things you can achieve.

4 Sep 2008 10:17am

shahab from Qazvin, Iran

Cool!Nicely done!

4 Sep 2008 1:28pm

Gustian from Jakarta, Indonesia

woow...great!!

4 Sep 2008 3:14pm

Tamara from Fort Myers, FL, United States

Awesome, Kylie! You did a great job on this! I too must read up on this technique. How neat!

4 Sep 2008 3:17pm

Vink from Grasse - French riviera, France

Lovely effect ! good job

4 Sep 2008 5:12pm

Rui from Leiria, Portugal

Wow Great idea. The effect is amazing. Good work

4 Sep 2008 6:05pm

Jean-Michel from Brussels, Belgium

Hi Kylie,
I'm not shure to undrestand correctly ! Do you mean that people sticks cut out silouhettes, in the shape of heart on their headlights and stoplights ?
Anyway, that image is cute and it woke up my curiosity.
Please apologies for my poor English!
Je parle français ;-)

4 Sep 2008 7:17pm