Photography tricks

At a camera club last week we have had a hands-on workshop on bokeh effect in photos.

From Wikipedia: In photography, bokeh  (bokeh (/ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə or /ˈboʊkeɪ/ BOH-kay; Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as "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" and "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 is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image. 

THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE

Not quite the fiddle, but at a photo club competition last week two of my works have done pretty well.

Saphy the Cat got a Gold in Set Projected category, the theme was “Animal Portrait”. A typical cat, sitting bored during a photoshoot ;)

The second image got a Bronze in Monochrome Printed category.

"Lost in Music", a harpist busking in Perth CBD. I had used multiple long exposures to show hustle and bustle of a lunch time crowd around the young musician.