Since festive is the theme this week at Where’s my backpack? I decided to give the whole bokeh thing a try. Here is one of my photographs that I took last night:
ISO 1000 50mm 0ev f/1.8 1/80
For those of you who are not familiar with the term bokeh, in this photo it is the dots of light that the tree lights and tinsel have become in this image. In order to get this photo, I first read this article that is on the Digital Photography School website. If you ever have a basic question about photography, I think the DPS website is a good place to start. What I liked about the bokeh article is that it includes specific examples of bokeh with each of those photos linked to the flickr image. Flickr (the link there is specifically for bokeh) is a good place to look at images because the camera settings are often included in information, which gives you an idea of where to start when making your images.
For my photo above, I used a tripod. By setting my f-stop to 1.8 it was easy to have just the bird in focus, thus creating the bokeh effect with the lights an tinsel. This was a fun image to make, and I will be working on some more while we have our tree up.
Cheers!
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