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Yes, this is my sewing machine although it is hardly recognisable through the bokeh and blur!
Here I am using the foot of the sewing machine to hold down three materials - green scrap material, red ribbon and black ribbon and I am plaiting the materials together to make the base of a necklace.
I used to own 3 Nikon bodies and 19 Nikon lenses (genuine Nikkors, not 3rd-party lenses) ranging from 16mm full frame fisheyes to 1200 telephoto. I was an equipment collector more than a photographer.
Now I have unburdened myself of clunky DSLRs and 5 kg. lenses and prefer to travel light.
Listing your camera equipment online is like a chef listing the knifes and sauce pans he owns....so what?
If you eat a great meal, do you ask "wow, what cookware did you use?".
I chuckle when people ask what camera was used for an image ... as if it was the equipment that was taking the photo, not the human being behind it.
All that matters is the results, not the tools.
We have all seen the images in the movies and TV of the photographer with the super-long zoom lens, secretly snapping photos of the girl from afar. I believe that this imagery leads to the psychological desire to "need" to have a super-long lens. No one lusts after the 16mm (expect me!) but for the 200, 300mm telephoto zooms. Portrait photography is best with a lens in the 90-140mm range, and 200mm gives plenty of bokeh and blurred backgrounds.
Welcome to my brand new lens :)
Yeh! it's a lensbaby. I wanted to try with a beginner's spark lens and this is almost the first shot I clicked. So yeh! again. I kind of am already in love with this lens, though focusing will require some serious practice.
It all happened when I sold my trusty 50mm f/1.4D. I know, how could I and it all happened really suddenly. I have been trying to sell it for sometime and a buyer just happened to like it in first go. And it was just gone. I have never worked better with any other lens, and most of my favourite shots are with this lens.
See shots for this lens here - www.flickr.com/photos/anshu_si/sets/72157629061743530/
So all this is because I want to upgrade to a 50 mm f1.4G. I am taking sometime now to decide if I really want to buy this lens and living a life without 50mm prime.
So lensbaby spark was an ideal purchase, because I so much love bokeh and blurs.
Mamiya C330. 80mm F2.8 Wide Open.
Ilford FP4+ in Stock Microphen for 6 mins. Scanned neg.
Bokeh and blur is all down to that lens.
I suppose you can clasify this one in the bokeh and blur set~ :-)
My heart smiles at this. You know it is wonderful to have your child love something that is dear to your heart. My oldest loves the camera as I do. He “See’s” what a photographer wants and develops to see, some may say a natural. As in this case he comes barreling through the door hollering…Moooooom, I need the camera! That makes me smile so big….boy, it could be worse couldn’t it? I have a few shots of this little “photo shoot” that I will throw in from time to time. Goodness, I didn’t know that caterpillars could move so fast..lol. These two were taken by myself but I will post a few from my son as well, on another day. Have a great evening! Andrea
Hi. It's been a while. More than a while. Ages. Eones.
I've changed. My photography has changed. Times have changed. But I thought why not give flickr another try, hit it one more time. Ey? I've got lots of nice pictures from the last couple of years, yes. Not that much centered on bokeh and blur anymore though, no, nowadays it seems I'm more into people, putting them into different kinds of environments and shoot away.
I used to photograph single pictures, the last couple of years have been more series, stories and that might be one reason why flickr hasn't felt "me" anymore. I haven't been able to pull out those single pictures from my stories. Now, I kind of yearn to have them again, find those single pearls in my collection, and that's why flickr might be a good medium for me once again. We'll see how long I last, hah.
What else? I study photography full time at a university now. Wowza. A complete leap into the great unknown. But it's good. I learn A LOT. And feel so very inspired.
I can't wait to immerse myself more in the flickr-universe once again, see how I'll divide my time between this, a blog and instagram... I might not be the greatest commentator or contact at first, it has to baby steps. Baby steps.
And there was the novel. Ugh.
✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/20M8Lf6
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by @ewanstevia on Instagram.
Models : Rhiannon and Tom
More fooing around with fake bokeh and blurring on a recent photoshoot/urbex with Rhiannon and Tom.
Cross-processed, bokeh'd.
This image was uploaded to my [modelling] account, a selection of my non-modelling images can be found on my other profile here
Bluebells in Bury Hill Woodland, West Sussex.
I wanted to capture the bluebell in the foreground and the also the shades of blue in the bokeh and blur. So I used Gimp to 'colour select' in 'addition' mode to select all of the shades of blue in the flowers (this took about 30 minutes in all), increased the colour saturation. Inverted the selection and desaturated the background. Finally, adjusted the brightness and contrast of the desaturated background.
Came out pretty well.
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Def not as sharp as the Bee, but the shot has a nice profile and quite like the bokeh and blur too. Hope you like it!
Too much blur for my liking, but there is still something that appeals to me about this image and prevents me from clicking on delete. Cow Parsnip is such an interesting and spectacular, tall plant. Taken yesterday, 16 July 2013, when I spent a few hours at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, searching for anything beautiful to photograph. I did come across just a handful of mushrooms, but the grasses and plants are so tall and thick, I don't know how I would ever find fungi growing in the midst of it all.
procrastination has seemed to have won again. i waited for sunshine, that time passed, and then i waited too long. so here is week 13. on the ground. in the wet, wet grass.
SOOC :)