Bokeh shapes and framing

Denise bought a photography magazine home from work which had some things to try out to do with blur and framing.
The name for the out of focus area in an image is called Bokeh. You can make shapes with the Bokeh by using different apertures and different lenses. The example to try in the magazine was to poke holes in a piece of cardboard and put it over the window-this would cause the shapes of light. Place an object in front to focus on and create a frame by cutting out a shape on a piece of card and sticking it to the front of the camera. I also learnt that there are all sorts of things you can put over the lens to create filters which I will try another day.

So here is a result of my experiment...



And here are some using framing-I cut out a star shape...