Find a plain background to shoot against, ideally a dark one, and arrange your lights – the more lights you include in the frame, the more bright and vibrant your bokeh will be.

Find a plain background to shoot against, ideally a dark one, and arrange your lights – the more lights you include in the frame, the more bright and vibrant your bokeh will be.

The more distance you can put between your subject and the background lights, the better the bokeh may be. Finally, you need a relatively large aperture (small f-number).

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