I stayed in all day, reading finishing up a book, made breakfast lunch and dinner, washed the dishes three times, sat looking appalled at the rate fur and dust accumulates in the house.
Banana pancakes
Bacon, Virgina ham, cheddar on a ciabatta. Broccoli and olives on the side.
Eggplant, olives, tuna, parmigiano reggiano
Now I’m snacking on white chocolate and feeling nerdy, gonna channel that energy somewhere.
These are the tools & materials you’ll need:
• Black paper – normal paper will do, I find no need for thicker paper. This is what your lens hood will be made out of.
• Black tape
• A stencil of the size of your lens [I printed it out because I don’t have a geometry compass]
• A coloured pencil, to draw the heart
• Scissors
• Pen knife + cutting mat
• Ruler
Let’s get started!
After measuring the diameter of your camera’s lens, give a 0.1cm buffer. In which case my lens is 5.6cm in diameter so my stencil is 5.7cm in diameter. Cut along your stencil and you will have yourself a black circle.
As accurately as you can, dot the centre of the circle and then draw a tiny heart around the dot. If you’re doing it free-hand, try not to draw too tiny a heart otherwise cutting it out won’t be so fun. If you have a heart-shaped cutter, all the better! Or star-shaped, it will work too. If not, use a pen knife to dig out the heart!
Cut a strip of your black paper, about 1.4cm in width. You are going to turn this into a ring around your lens so no need for a long long strip.
So your black circle goes on top of your black ring. Be sure to do a fitting on your camera’s lens! Lots of adjusting and frustration here, at least for me.
Tape it together. I manhandle most of my belongings so I TAPED the whole thing together. So there, you have your heart-shaped bokeh lens hood!
The next thing is to make sure your lens is zoomed in all the way (at least 50mm), it reads 55mm on mine and you’re on manual focus.
Put on your lens hood, go to where the bright lights are and see what you come up with!
The tutorial on how to make your own heart-shaped bokeh lens hood will be up tomorrow, small promise! I’m tippytoesthrilled that you guys liked the photos.
I did mention growing cat grass a few posts back and it’s grown out quite nicely. Ben took a video of Fatboy munching on grass-ohhwhee (and whizzed it using Vintage Maker on the iPhone, if you’re wondering). Enjoy!
I got down to making a heart-shaped bokeh lens hood in the afternoon so naturally I roam to where the bright lights are to test it out.
Check, it works
Hmm, yay!
Peter pan collar blouse from French Toast, Muji pullover, Forever21 shorts, flats from Studio Tang
I have a feeling my lens isn’t awesome enough to do more than this but we’ll see what I can figure out.
I apologise for all the indoor shots, it’s been raining and I’m a nightmare at having my photo taken out in public. Look at my face here, this is when I’m about to give up after a million takes. Splat the fat face!
Anyway I’m wearing my new shirt from onepintplease, together with my new Baggu Duck Bag! My friend, Beks, sent this shirt my way and I’ve actually worn it many times now and LOVE it – just had one too many failed attempts at photographing me in it. The bag is my current throw-it-all-in-bag. The size is perfect and it has a strap as well as handles! I highly recommend it, a chrismassy present maybe?
Nothing much is new around here, except that my bf is growing out a goatee and I bought cat-grass which I just planted (for my cats to munch on). How’s everyone?
Hi! I’m Melly. I share photos of my life & my handcrafted goods here. I live in Singapore & currently shooting with an Olympus Pen-F.
