The formula is pretty straight forward, it's glycerine and water, nothing too crazy. I simply bought a garden/hair sprayer for 99p at the DIY store and then mixed my formula to put inside it. Next you'll need the "mystical orb" creating spray. 1 shallow aperture lens - Ideally around f2.8 or less.1 dark background - This can be anything from a black sheet/velvet to a black colourama.1 small softbox as a fill light modifier but a reflector can be a substitute here.
2 directional lighting modifiers - snoot, grid or barn doors etc.2 - 4 Lights (the principles of this setup can be achieved with two lights).So how can we harness these "mystical orbs" into our studio shots to create something a bit more engaging than yet another sunlight-through-leaves bokeh effect? You will need To a non-photographer, explaining bokeh is far harder than you might think. In my youth I worked in a photo lab where we developed film and I remember customers opening their prints for the first time and exclaiming that they'd captured these "weird mystical orbs" in their shots. Put simply bokeh are light artefacts that appear in our images when we capture spots of extremely out of focus light. We may love it so much because we capture something that isn't actually there, we can't see it with our eyes and so I think it holds a measure of excitement in us as we eagerly check the back of the camera awaiting the image to appear to show us what our eyes cannot. Bokeh is something that us as photographers love but I'm not entirely sure why.
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