My Get Pushed Challenge - to shoot some object (your choice) with a bokeh lights background.
This is my first attempt which I'm not very happy with at all so any comment or critique will be welcome
I'm from Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa. Tulbagh is a small farming community.
Get Pushed Challenge: I have been doing this challenge on and off...
It look very mysterious and the lights look lovely. Somehow, I think it could use a little more definition on the subject in the foreground...but, how you could do that?! A little fill light maybe?
or glass maybe.....the trouble is you never do know until you play do you? But, you have inspired me...one of the days I will try some in the dark shots :-) @salza
@salza Congratulations on the first attempt, still I think there are some settings that need to be corrected. I guess you did this shot with the kit lens, which is harder. It gets much easier if you have a macro lens, cause it gives a big DOF. Anyway, what is the distance between the cup and the lights? Maybe you can try to double it next time. You need f/2.8 or f/3.5 and the distance should be much bigger, so that the lights stay somewhere far in the background and appear more blurred. I hope these advises help you ;)
@velina Thanks Velina, unfortunately I do not have a macro lens but I will persevere with what I have got. I agree the distances were all wrong. Found a youtube video that mentions using a 200mm lens and a decent distance of at least 1 meter between camera and cup and then a longer distance (3 or 4 meters) to the lights so I'm going to try that out sometime this week. Not going to give up!! :-)
@salza Well, it's not obligatory to use 250mm. 100 will work, too, but it depends on the lens. Try to put the lights as far as you can from the cup! Good luck and I am looking forward to the result!
I am not good at the mathematics of bokeh, but I do know that with my camera, if I focus on something with the macro setting outdoors (such as a flower, or leaves on a tree), whatever is in the background, such as trees or other flowers, will become bokeh with the light coming from behind- if that makes any sense. I don't think you got bokeh here, but you seem to have a handle on where to go from here, so you're all set.
October 9th, 2012
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