Scrappin My Bliss: Camera dump...

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...wood-mounted rubber stamps

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Camera dump...

I just posted today's photo to my Project 365 blog, 365 Daze to 40 , and decided to share the few that didn't make the cut over here. I used my new lens that I talked about in the previous post. I am going to love this thing! I have been fascinated for quite a while now with bokeh . It had been popping up on blogs quite a bit recently, especially over the holidays as Christmas lights lend themselves so well to bokeh. I attempted it when we had our tree up but the other lenses I have were just not quite right for it. Since I was itching to use my new lens, and the Christmas stuff is long since put away, I took advantage of the one thing we have a lot of around here: laundry! I know I know...weird photo subject, but I am all about keeping it real!

Here are a few of the many shots I took. I deleted quite a few but decided to upload these in addition to the one I chose for my other blog because, though I clearly have a looooong way to go in learning what I am doing, they were not a bad first attempt and there is at least a little something in each of them I like.

I really like this one! Though my intent was to focus on the bottle of detergent I somehow focused on the pile of towels instead, lending a bokeh affect to both the foreground and background of the photo.

This one was a little more what I had in mind, though I didn't want the whole bottle in the shot.

Eh. The bokeh is there. It's OK, I guess.

I like this one, too, but the towels are still a little too much in focus.

I promise to find more interesting bokeh subjects for future posts!!!
:-)

7 comments:

Unknown said...: Very cool...I have never heard of the term Bokeh...I have done some pictures with the Bokeh effect and didn't even know what it was called! LOL...I have a feeling I am going to learn alot from your blog!; 1/24/2010 5:22 PM
Terri Steffes said...: Learning something new today! Cool pics!; 1/24/2010 8:56 PM
Bibi @ Bibi's Culinary Journey said...: I love your new camera. That's something that's on my wish list for this year.

I finally made it over to your new blog and became follower.Can't wait to follow your journey to 40.; 1/24/2010 9:57 PM
Alicia said...: i never thought i would say this, but i love your laundry pictures! lol...i wish i could do all those neat things with my ghetto camera!; 1/25/2010 4:28 AM
Beth P. said...: I love that first one of the towels with the blurry bottle! The lighting in that picture is nice :-)

Have fun playing with your new lens. I can't wait to see what else you share!

I have an award for you on my blog - please come by and take look!; 1/25/2010 6:18 AM
Connie said...: Awesome! I bet you'll get some great shots now!; 1/25/2010 9:47 AM
Sugarplum Creations Blog said...: Isn't it amazing how something as boring as laundry can be fun when you're snappin' away???! Love these shots!; 1/25/2010 3:09 PM