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Stopped at Burnside Farms this morning in Haymarket, VA and got this shot.
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I love this sparkling background :)
Have a great Day My Friends :)))
Ps. This on was made in Elf Factory :)
Hihihihi:
Co może być gorszego od kamyczka w bucie?
Ziarenko piasku w prezerwatywie.
Zakonnica zadaje dzieciom zagadkę:
- Jest rude, ma puszysty ogon, skacze po drzewach i je orzechy. Co to ?
Zgłasza się Jasio:
- Na 99% jest to wiewiórka, ale jak znam siostrę to może to być Jezus...
Happy Bokeh Wednesday and New Year's Eve.
I would like to thank you all for your kind comments during the year. I hope you all have a happy and creative New Year!
This cardinal landed in my backyard while I was having a cigarette. I ran inside to get my camera, thinking it wasn't going to be there when I got back. But it was! So I started taking pictures of it. I kept moving closer and closer (I was flat on the ground shimmy-ing military style. My dad would have been proud.) and I swear my lens was only like 2 feet away from it. It sat there for a good 15 minutes until I flew away. It was funny cause every time I snapped the camera it would change a pose. If there was a Top Model for birds, he totally would have won.
I hope all are well on the East Coast. All is well in TX... more soon and thanks for your visits! Tony
Oh yes, I am officially a Steinway Artist now:
...and best viewed large.
Good morning, and HBW to all you bokeh fanatics. Which prompted today's postings of a Monarch (Danaus plexippus) feeding on wild New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae) in my favorite field by the Interstate. And although this is similar to a posting of a week ago it's a completely different shot without a hint of over-exposure that was inherent in the other photo. I hope you enjoy my humble bokeh offering and that you have a HBW.
From Wikipedia...Bokeh (derived from Japanese boke ぼけ, a noun form of bokeru ぼける, "become blurred or fuzzy") is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject.
Mike Johnston, former editor of Photo Techniques magazine, claims to have coined the bokeh spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, replacing the previous spelling boke that derived directly from the Japanese word for "fuzzy" and had been in use at least since 1996. It can be pronounced /ˈboʊke/ or /ˈboʊkə/ (boke-aay or boke-uh). The term bokeh has appeared in photography books at least since 2000.
Thank you for visiting...and I hope you have a truly pleasant day.
Lacey
ISO200, aperture f/8, exposure .006 seconds (1/180) focal length 190mm
I am the entertainer,
I come to do my show.
You've heard my latest record,
It's been on the radio.
Ah, it took me years to write it,
They were the best years of my life.
It was a beautiful song.
But it ran too long.
If you're gonna have a hit,
You gotta make it fit--
So they cut it down to 3:05.
I was hoping this photo would be a hit on explore, So cropped to suit explore, but I love the fuller size version better. This one feels less pure. . .I fell like Billy Joel with the words to that song—another artist sacrificing purity to make a hit. On the other hand, this part applies too:
Today I am your champion.
I may have won your hearts.
But I know the game,
You will forget my name,
And I won't be here
In another year,
If I don't stay on the charts.
Bokeh (from Wikipedia):
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality".
In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image. Bokeh can also be viewed by forcefully blurring one's vision while looking at a small light, like an LED.
Although difficult to quantify, some lenses enhance overall image quality by producing more subjectively pleasing out-of-focus areas. Good bokeh is especially important for large-aperture lenses, macro lenses, and long telephoto lenses because they are typically used with a shallow depth of field. Bokeh is also important for medium telephoto "portrait lenses" (typically 85–150 mm on 35-mm format) because in portraiture photography, the photographer typically seeks to obtain a shallow depth of field to achieve an out-of-focus background and make the subject stand out.
This is the medium format version of the exposure that I had made earlier on with the D7000. This photograph represents my growing up, from a toddler to a full grown man. Adulthood is still far away but the ride has been fun and I don't want it to stop. Shot with a Mamiya RZ67 + Sekor 110mm 2.8 and Kodak Ektar 100. Scanned with a Epson V500