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How to make square bokeh because: Sometimes it really is hip to be square

Front Three-Quarter view of a Meopta Belar 50mm f4.5 enlarger lens from Soviet-era Czechoslovakia
A Meopta Belar 4.5/50 Enlarger Lens with a square aperture. Learn to use a lens like this to make some very unusual images.

This is a Meopta Belar 4.5/50 has an unusual feature. It has a square aperture that makes some very funky bokeh. That means blurred hightlights become diamonds or boxes. If they’re close together, they look almost like a linen texture. See what it looks like, and learn how to get square or textured bokeh in your images.

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Win an Ektoplasmar converted projection lens (Drawing Ended)

Red crabapple leaves newly opened in spring. Image made with an Ektoplasmar converted projection lens.
These red ornamental crabapple leaves show the bokeh power of the Ektoplasmar converted projection lenses

You could win a lens. I spent the first half of this year figuring out how to make these Ektoplasmar converted projection lenses. Now you can win one. Just sign up for my newsletter about photography and creativity.