20 November 2008

Bokeh

Tonight I finally got around to try out a few of the latest tricks we have learned at the course, 'Bokeh' and 'Bulb'.

'Bokeh' is when you photograph light out of focus, so that it makes "glitter" on your photographs, or little light balls; bokeh is a term to describe how nice un-focus can be!

Here is a photo from our teacher:


(Picture from woopsiedaisy)

And here is my take, I didn't feel I did very well on this. Mostly I think because I couldn't get a bigger aperture than f/5.6:



I guess I will have to practise this a bit more! It was fun!
If you want to take it a step further, you can do this to your camera:


(Picture from woopsiedaisy)

... and get pictures that look like this!


(Photo from woopsiedaisy)

This didn't work at all for me, haha... but will give it another shot some other day I think!

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