When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Notice how the bokeh in the foreground is much bigger? It's exaggerated the farther away the ...

Last year we showed you how to make your own custom-shaped bokeh highlights—the soft, out-of-focus, points of light in a photo background—and even built our own DIY bokeh rig. Now we're back to test a ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...