I’m a little bit bored with the whole open/close door thing. Not only is it limiting me to having square photos but it’s also making the blog visually quite samey.
However I’m still going to continue with my photographic advent colander I’m afraid. I’m enjoying the creative push of having to come up with something every day (although I realize I’ve yet to come up with much of any real merit as yet).
Today I thought I’d have a go at Bokeh, which is basically Japanese for can’t get the damn thing in focus. Take care with your spelling however, as without the ethe word “Bokh” has little to do with photography and is actually a form of Mongolian wrestling. If you accidentally get it wrong then no amount of camera-bag padding is going to protect your lenses from Genghis’ expertly delivered pile-drivers .
This is my first attempt at someting like this and I’m relatively pleased with the results. It’s a picture of our Christmas tree. I got the lights to show up as hearts by sticking a piece of card with a heart shape cut out of it over the lens. I think I got the idea from photojojo, but I can’t seem to find the tutorial. I did find this one though which gives you the general idea.
I think I’m going to have another go at this at some point, so expect a few more blurry pictures over the next few days. Well, that’s my excuse anyway.
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I would have never guessed that was a pic of your Christmas tree. You should have made us guess.
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Brilliant!
Well, it would be if it were your idea. Never mind that–it’s brilliant and I love the shot. In fact, after catching up on the last several posts, I have to say–you’ve got quite the eye. Love the compositions thus far.
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That’s very cool, except couldn’t you come up with a better shape than hearts? Like penises, for example?
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I was going to say it was looking a little samey around here. Whatever that means.
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I saw the article on that technique, thought that maybe when i get a ‘real’ camera i could give it a try. nice work.
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Bokeh is too much fun altogether – I like the cut out idea. There are little hearts appearing all over your comments section. Aww!
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I love this picture! I had no idea there was a name for the style and I wouldn’t have a clue how to do it but I think it’s gorgeous!
How about some step by step instructions for those of us without a clue? ;o)
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VegasDad – You can still guess if you like, but it might be a little bit easy.
Ed – You want brilliance and originality? You’re a hard man to please.
Avitable -Unfortunatly I don’t have a hole punch that does penis shapes. If you turn the picture upside down you could pretend the hearts are actually testicles though.
Jeff – Perhaps we should consult the urban dictionary.
PG -You could probably give it a go if you switched to macro mode (or even portrait mode) on a regular camera (that’s if it has that feature). Put something in the foreground so your camera focuses on that and then if you have a card with a shape cut out of it over your lens it should hopefully work on the background.
(un)relaxeddad – There are aren’t they. I never noticed that before. I’m going to have to chec out commentluv.com
Penelope – See my answer to PG:) Also the tutorial I linked to for more of a general idea.
I will try this whole Bokeh thing sometime.
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Very nice information. Thanks for this. By the way, did you create this layout yourself?