UFOs?!?

Is this a blurry photo of UFOs?? Ah, no. But it's almost as cool (in a geeky, photo kinda way). I made my own bokeh. Bokeh is just the the blurry, usually background, area of a photo. I believe it's Japanese for background. They type of lens can influence the appearance of bokeh. Sometimes it looks like little circles, other times hexagons, pentagons, or whatever. depending lens characteristics that I won't get into here. Some people are snobs about bokeh; generally "smooth" is preferable to "chunky." Anyway, I had no idea that you could make your own bokeh shapes! It's so easy too! The hardest thing is finding a good, brightly speckled subject to shoot, out of focus.