Creating a beautiful bokeh can be a little tricky if you don’t know what you’re doing.
This article over at 500px ISO will show you all the details on how to make it happen. It’s actually an easy thing to do, especially if you follow these tips from professional photographer Magdalena Ginalska.
The Beauty of Bokeh
Bokeh images have some ethereal beauty and magic in them. In our reality, which is often grey and dreary, we all need something that will make us marvel like a kid upon seeing an amazing thing for the first time. Bokeh pictures have that quality. Moreover, this is where a camera lens can surpass the human eye and take us to an enchanted world, which we can’t see otherwise.The Concept for “When You Wish Upon a Star”
Creating this photo wasn’t just a one-step process. First, the idea grew in my mind, but when I was ready to realize it, I understood I would need the help of some “tricks” to make the picture look exactly the way I imagined. Originally, I was planning to take it at home with the background of Christmas illuminations and without the gloves. I saw those gloves in a store window while doing some Christmas shopping, and I thought,“Eureka!” At this point, I decided to take the picture outdoors. I needed to find a spot with lots of Christmas illuminations, which wasn’t really hard in the pre-festive period. In fact, I found what I was looking for in a beautifully-decorated Old Square of my hometown.Shooting the Background
Equipped with the Canon 50mm (which renders 80mm on my camera) f1.4 lens, I asked a friend—or rather, her hands—to pose for me so that I could take some sample shots. I wanted see if I could capture what I wanted. I wasn’t altogether satisfied with the effect. The lights were too high for the hands to look natural and well-proportioned. And yet, I understood those very illuminations would create a perfect background for my picture as they were literally forming a wonderful, compact curtain of lights. They met my idea of filling the whole background with a nice dense, uni-color bokeh, so I decided to take some shots of just the illuminations, and see if they could somehow come in handy later.
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