Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Because All The Cool Kids Are Doing It

Because All The Cool Kids Are Doing It - out of focus lights on a Christmas tree in Stayton Oregon

It's kind of a popular thing to take purposefully out of focus shots of Christmas lights, especially over on Zooomr, my favorite photo sharing site. So here's my (outdoor, since we have no room indoors) Christmas tree, all decked out in bokeh goodness.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Pat said...

What an interesting capture! I've seen a couple of similar ones on my Cafe site as well. ;)

Pat


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12/12/2007 02:32:00 AM  
Blogger Jim said...

I didnt know it was the thing to do. I like the picture, to me its different.

12/12/2007 04:17:00 AM  
Blogger Château-Gontierdailyphoto said...

Please tell us how you realized such a nice picture.

12/12/2007 12:55:00 PM  
Blogger Celine said...

Thanks, everyone!

As for how I did it, I put my camera's lens on manual focus (a 50mm 1.8 on a Canon Rebel XT) and adjusted the focus until it blurred the lights like I wanted, and took the picture.

It's pretty easy to do if your camera has manual focus.

12/12/2007 02:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Wanderer said...

That is some mighty fine bokeh ya got there!

The big shot photographers will probably tell ya that really good bokeh is brightest at the center. But whatda they know? They're all hung up on their 'circles of confusion' anyway. ;)

12/12/2007 02:57:00 PM  
Blogger Kim said...

Very nicely done! Yours is the first I've seen of a whole tree. I'm gonna halfta try something before the season of lights is over.
-Kim

12/13/2007 02:22:00 PM  

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