26 Oct 2010

Dynamic

I decided to minimalise my blog header - I'm a bit fickle like that. But the real reason behind the change is that it's an incentive to one day take a photograph that's so good I can use it as a permanent header and a statement about my progress as a photographer.

But for now, I thought this photograph that I took a couple of weeks ago would make a good response for The Sunday Creative. I darkened the background a bit in Elements for a more dramatic image. And I learned something about the bright spots of light in the background - the wider open the aperture is, the rounder the spots. When the aperture is narrower the spots change from circles to hexagons because they become the shape of the aperture. As Michael Caine would say, "not a lot of people know that" - although I suspect all you guys who read and comment on my blog do :-)

My new lens (50mm f/1.4) arrived yesterday. On my way to work this morning there was the most amazing blue and pink sky so I quickly stopped on a fuel station forecourt and took a couple of pictures with it - can't wait to get home and see how they turned out.

From which you may have deduced that I'm writing this blog at work. Moi? As if...

8 comments:

  1. I love this shot, great colours for autumn and very dynamic. I look forward to seeing your 50m results, mine is 1.8, 1.4 sounds amazing.

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  2. I enjoyed looking at some of your blog entries...and I like your "dynamic" shot! I'll be back!

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  3. This is a gorgeous shot and love what you did to and said about it. (I also didn't know...but then again I'm a technical dunce :)) Beautiful!

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  4. This is a beautiful shot! I also look forward to your photo with the new lense!

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  5. Look at that bokeh!!! Gorgeous shot.

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  6. Very pretty! I have to go see how the sky photos look. :)

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  7. Gorgeous light and bokeh in this image.

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  8. Beautiful photo and I like the background darkened some. Sounds like you 'know' cameras....if mine doesn't work it's own magic on Auto...I'm lost.

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