Bokeh-dokie

"Bokeh" is the Japanese of "Blur" they said and the first time I heard it was in our Photography class, basically it's an image with a background that is blurred enough that little spots of light would form a shape, the default shape of this blur effect would be circles, but you can get creative with the shape by using a filter. You can make the said filter with a piece of paper and pair of scissors, but its recommendable if you use a black thick paper, a pair of scissors for cutting the cardboard and an X-Acto knife like tool to cut out the shape.

To make the Bokeh filter, you have to cut a piece of the paper small enough to fit in front of your lens. Then cut out a small shape, any desired shape, be it a triangle, a tear drop or even a word, as long as you can do it, cut out from the circular paper, the shape should at least be in sizes one inch and below and in the center of the paper.

Once you have the filter in front of your lens, you got to have a wide Aperture and a fast Shutter Speed, or a small Aperture and a slow Shutter Speed. You can either have a subject or not just as long it can be blurry enough with a manual focus and there're spots or dots of light on the parts that you want to be Bokeh'd.

Some examples which I used with filter with a cut out of a tear drop and an irregularly shaped star that ended up looking like a maple leaf: