Share Six | Bokeh

Hello there!! Can you believe it’s already December?!?! Where has the year gone? It’s that time again where we announce our new theme over at Share Six.  We are doing Bokeh again, and I was pretty excited to get out and try some different shots and techniques that I haven’t tried before. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get 6 images though, so I’m using two old images, and then the other four are ones I specifically went out and shot for this month’s theme.

For those of you who are not photographers and do not know what bokeh is….According to Wikipedia, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens.  Bokeh has also been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.  Being that we are so close to Christmas, I chose to go with the latter definition and use Christmas lights in my images.

Here is an image I took of my son two years ago. It’s one of my absolute favorites.

Here is another one I did for our bokeh theme two years ago.

For these next two, I decided to experiment some more with multiple exposures as well as using some off camera flash. These also happen to fit last month’s theme as well. This first one is a combination of 5 images exposed together in camera.  You would not believe how long the last image (the silhouette of my husband and I) took.  The flash behind us would not fire. I tried just about everything and even turned everything off and then back on. I don’t even remember what finally ended up working to get it to fire. I was so frustrated that I just gave up despite the fact that the image wasn’t exactly how I wanted it.

This next one is of an awesome client of mine who was more than happy to help out with only 45 minutes notice.  I was envisioning this shot and really wanted to make it happen.  This one is also 5 exposures, 4 of which were done in camera and the 5th I ended up having to join with the other 4 in photoshop.  The in camera multiple exposure had one aspect that was bothering me, so by doing it in photoshop, I could remove that distraction.

The last two are of my husband and myself.  I have to say a huge thanks to my daughter for standing guard by my camera, as my tripod has recently started to give me some problems as well.  Apparently all of my gear is giving out on me…and just in time for Christmas. *sad and frustrated sigh*

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