Showing posts with label blossom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blossom. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

To Bokeh or not to Bokeh....

Purple Theme'd cupcakes 4 by Nick Barker Photography
ISO800 - F8 -1/60

The wiki definition of Bokeh is as follows..

In photography, bokeh (Japanese pronunciation: [boke]) is the blur,[1][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,[3][4][5] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."[6] 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" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.[1] 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.


So I was going through a few pictures when I started to notice that I was in a very unintentional way pulling off this hard technique I suppose with a little bit of luck.

ISO400 -F9 - 1/320
photo by Nick Barker Photography on Flickr.
Now I have had the penny drop.. and understand what it is and how to achieve it there's no stopping me .....

Monday, 28 March 2011

Springtime is here!!

Blossom 2 by Nick Barker Photography
ISO400 - F9  -1/320
Blossom 2, a photo by Nick Barker Photography on Flickr.
If getting back at 4 in the morning on saturday wasn't rock and roll enough for you then today I took a trip to Rodley nature reserve!

Plenty of trees, birds and nature... it would usually take 30min to walk round but because I cant help but snap pics of anything that catches my eye it ended up taking an hour or so.. I just glad my wifes tollerant of my hobby!!