CLASSROOM: Create Cinematic Bokeh With This Cheap Hack1 min read

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Making photos look “cinematic” is a big trend these days, often times with various plugins and presets, but this hack brought to us by The Creative Contrast allows us to get photos with the trademark anamorphic bokeh that it hard, if not impossible, to fake in Photoshop.

With just a glue stick, a UV filter, and some bristol board (uncoated, machine-finished paperboard), we can create an artificial aperture for our lenses in order to give our backgrounds that oval, squeezed, shape that we see in movies and TV when they shoot on anamorphic lenses. While obviously, there is more to a cinematic look than just your bokeh, it’s nice to see a cheap and easy hack to add that final touch to your images.

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Image Credit: The Creative Contrast