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Photo Monday: Christmas Bokeh

Miguel — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:00:11 +0000

With the holidays knocking at our door, I went out this week with the intention of photographing a ton of Christmas decorations around town. Turns out that Toronto doesn’t really decorate its streets the way Montreal does. At least not in our area … so I had to be creative this week.

If you are wondering, Bokeh refers to the aesthetic quality of the out of focus area in a photograph. It’s often used to describe the rendition of out-of-focus points of light, but I think it really applies to all out-of-focus effects. Anyways, here are some Christmas Bokeh for you.

Have a wonderful holiday!!!
Cheers,

Night lights of Spadina – View On Black

Cold as ice – View On Black

Tiny depth of field across the counter – View On Black

Smoky Monday, Part II

Miguel — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:30 +0000

There was so much hype (mostly on my part!) over this past Monday’s post, Smoky Monday, that I wanted to share some of the runner up photos today. I also found an amazing (and simple!) way to post-process smoke photos that I just had to try out and share with you!! As you can imagined, it was very difficult last week to choose which photos to post for the photo Monday, so I’m glad to have the opportunity to share some more of my photos today! Anyways, here are some of the runner up and some post-processed photos, which I think are potentially cooler than the original photos.

Hope you enjoy this mid-week post. Stay tuned for next week as I have something very special prepared you guys and gals! I’m pretty happy with the result so far!

Cheers,

Silky Sheet

Smoke Bird

Smoke Jelly Fish

Inverted Smoky Beast

Inverted Flowing Silky Smoke

Don’t read this. It’s something I need to put on my site once for technorati: MJW5Q72QJVHC.

Smoky Monday

Miguel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:00:40 +0000

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I started this week with two great ideas for my “Photo Monday” and I had even started to share some of them with people. Unfortunately, there were some unexpected problems (missing one very important piece of equipment – a telescope mirror) and so I opted for a slightly simpler project for this week’s shoot. I am not disappointed. I think it’s even cooler than what I had planned!! I will get to the other ideas eventually…

Perhaps you guessed it from the title; I decided to shoot smoke. Shooting smoke is amazing because the subject is so unpredictable that every photo is a surprise. For that same reason, it’s very hard to decide when to stop because you know that every shot will be unique. I really enjoyed this week’s challenge. I might try it again on another day. Alright, here they are, my shots of smoke.

This one is almost scary. It looks like a beast is roaring.

This smoke shot is Bonnie’s favourite. It really does look like silk or flowing mercury.

I just had to include this swirl one. I love the way the smoke made a perfect swirl at the top right.

I like this one. It really has a lot of details and very interesting shapes.

As always, the shots are available on flickr in much bigger sizes! You can simply click on your favourite photo and it’ll take you there! If you like those shots, make sure you check out the Part II of this series, including some post-processed shots.