Bokeh for St Valentine's Day

a theme

Hello,

As suggested by Diaan and since we are in agreement — let me plug this properly as our very first 'automated' theme thing magic.

With that silly intro done — here are the rules of engagement:

  1. Date: Feb 14, 2011
  2. Requirements:
    Bokeh and Texture - the image needs to have both sharp and highly unfocussed portions. This might be hard if you're shooting using an instant camera, but not impossible.
  3. Colour: B&W or Colour & Red
  4. Theme: More love, less commerce. (Not mandatory)
  5. Rules: No Photoshop (basics such as cropping//contrast is allowed), must be newly shot (ie, not from your archive).
  6. Putting limitations on the work will promote creativity.

Yes lets go — just to inform you on how it will work:

on the day the theme is live: when you upload a photograph you will see an option to add your photograph to the theme as illustrated by this example:

theme upload example

Yep, that's all there is to it.

1ove, collaborates.

12 Comments
 
  1. lebogang nkoane

    Ole? Do these work?

  2. lebogang nkoane

    Yes, they do!

  3. Diaan

    Awesome!

  4. Jeff Rikhotso

    Serios tings (With a Buju Bunton voice)

  5. Neil Acid

    I don't know how to do this...
    links to [non video] tutorials are welcome.
    =]

  6. lebogang nkoane

    @Neil: I see you use a canon 450D which should be similar to what I have, so I'd say do this:

    1. set the aperture (pressing the star thing along with the Av± thing) to like 3.5
    2. then zoom in fully (55mm thing magic);
    3. set the focus to manual;
    4. turn the focus counter-clockwise (as in turn all the way to the right whilst looking through the view-finder);
    5. find a light source (candle; light bulb; or city/town lights);
    6. get the light source in focus — then slowly move way until it is all blurred (preferably into a shape of a circle or similar)
    7. now keep the light source there: whilst trying to find an object closer to camera and put that object in focus by moving it back and forth;
    8. then shoot.
    9. preview; rinse and repeat until desired effect is achieved

    It is rough and way too detailed but it should get your there — all the above steps can varied to your liking.

    happy hunting.

  7. lebogang nkoane

    an example, I think what Diaan is asking of us: http://breathinginreverse.tumblr.com/post/3137774669

    *stands-corrected

  8. lebogang nkoane

    and another one: http://alongday.tumblr.com/post/3106771547

    #cheesy

  9. Diaan

    The two examples above are perfect.

    Depth of Field (DOF) is where it's at. I've tagged a few of my images where there's a pronounced DOF to give a vague indication, although for this challenge more bokeh is better than less. http://75.co.za/diaan/tags/dof

  10. Neil Acid

    thank you! =D

  11. ntsasa

    this is higher grade.
    lets see if i can play with the big boys.

  12. lebogang nkoane

    Yay — first theme of the year, done. First theme with a 'system to back it up', done!

    :-)

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