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My Christmas reindeer, who is rather beautifully made and came from Tiger (and probably best not to ask about its manufacture...).
This photo is all about the background. I wanted to take a portrait of my daughter practicing her violin with nice Christmas tree light bokeh behind her. To get the effect I envisioned in our very small living room required a fairly careful balancing of lighting and camera settings.
On the lighting front, I used a flash with a 1/2 CTO gel through a white umbrella to camera right for key and a flash bounced off of a yellow room wall to camera left for fill. Both flashes were set at fairly low power to balance with the small tree lights at a wide aperture. To maximize the blurring and relative size of the tree lights in the background (which were only about three feet behind my daughter), I backed up as far as I could (maybe 6 feet), zoomed in tight, and set my lens to its maximum aperture (f/4). I could have used my shorter but brighter 50mm f/1.8 to achieve an even shallower depth of field, but the lights in the background would have then appeared much smaller.
You can read more about my thoughts on using longer lenses to isolate a subject against a background in this blog post
eriksphotoblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/using-focal-length-to...
Christmas lunch in New York. Visit to Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue, and lunch at the Top of the Sixes, 666 Fifth Ave.
Christmas Eve 1963, home of Lewis & Myrtle Edwards, Oxford IA
Terry Edwards, Joyce Edwards, Tim Edwards
Since we put up our tree on Christmas Eve, I didn't get too many opportunities for the mandatory "dog in front of bokehed decorated tree" portrait - so here we go :)
I hope and pray that all of my Flickr friends had a blessed Christmas!
While taking a brisk walk on Christmas Eve, I photographed this Nativity scene in a yard. Walks on holidays can be very peaceful. It amazes me how quiet it is around town as people take a break from their hectic and busy lives.
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” - Matthew 1:23
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Un Natale di food entertainement aspetta tutti gli appassionati di cucina dal 29 novembre al 1° dicembre al Christmas Food Village.
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