January 4, 2013

• Bokeh!

  I have been learning how to use my new camera.  It has so many settings on it that I have had to read and reread my manual just to figure out the basics.  Once you learn the icons it's not hard but it can get confusing.  I decided the best way to master it was to concentrate on one setting at a time.  Today I worked on the aperture priority setting (a manual setting) and the portrait setting (a programmed aperture priority setting).  I managed to create bokeh for the first time.  Bokeh.  Yes, it has a name.  The blurry background, often bright spots or lights behind an up close portrait or object.

  My results:

  

  

  and a self-portrait

  

   

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