Well, I talked briefly about controlling the shape of your aperture in order create cool shapes in the out of focus regions of your photos. I had experimented some with it, and thought I had the perfect situation to use it. It was the 4th of July and I had a start shaped aperture in my bag. So I gave it a run…a very short run. Here is what happened
I was using a different lens this time. I was using a 50mm f/1.4, but had it on the end of a 35mm f/2. I thought f/2 would have been wide enough to allow for this to work, but evidently not. I do like the vignetting, but opening up to f/2 was just not enough to make this bokeh—that is what the out of focus region is called…its Japanese…so cultured, huh?—make star shapes.
On the upside, I had a hard time getting my 50mm to have good vignetting, whereas this wider 35mm really came through nicely. You live and learn.
