El Bokeh Wall is a technique to create beautiful bokeh backgrounds using some aluminum foil. Here in this tutorial Laya Gerlock explains how to do it.
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Laya Gerlock explains how to create “El Bokeh Wall”
What you’ll need
- A camera and a large aperture lens
- Speedlights
- A wireless trigger
- Gels
- Aluminium foil or silver wrapping paper
- Scissors and tape
Step 1: “Get your aluminium foil or wrapping paper and crumple it”
Step 2: “Lay it flat and you should get something like this”
Step 3: “Tape it to your background a distance away from the subject”
Step 4: “Get your speedlight and choose a colored gel for the background that you want”
Step 5: “Place your speedlight with gel below your shooting table and point it towards your background (the crumpled aluminium foil)”
Step 6: “For the main light I used a speedlight with a small softbox and diffused it some more with an acrylic sheet in front”
Here are the results:
