{"id":1812,"date":"2014-12-15T22:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernlensmagazine.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2015-04-17T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:26:08","slug":"christmas-photo-ideas-plus-a-quick-video-lesson-to-help-you-shoot-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/christmas-photo-ideas-plus-a-quick-video-lesson-to-help-you-shoot-them\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Christmas Photo Ideas PLUS A Short Video Lesson To Help You Shoot Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\">Learn To Take Beautiful Bokeh Christmas Photos With This Short Video Lesson<\/h3>\n<p>At the end of this article is a short video which will teach you how to use Christmas lights and make beautiful Bokeh shots. Here are seven photo ideas that perfectly complement this tutorial.<\/p>\n<h3>#1 Christmas lights in the foreground<\/h3>\n<p>The image below was captured by placing Christmas lights in the foreground then focusing through the lights on the small boy this is a perfect use for the techniques taught in the video lesson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/629\/2014\/12\/1_ChristmasPhotoIdea-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"1 Christmas Photo Idea\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shot with an 50 mm lens at f\/1.4 and some colored christmas lights hanging in front of the lens.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/5R3eYb\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Reinikainen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>#2 All white lights with a white sweater\/clothing<\/h3>\n<p>I really like this it is a very clean Christmas look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/629\/2014\/12\/2_christmas_bokeh_by_theautumnleaves-d5oa0lz-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"2 christmas bokeh by the autumnleaves\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theautumnleaves.deviantart.com\/art\/Christmas-bokeh-343109015\">Christmas bokeh<\/a> by <span class=\"username-with-symbol u\"><a class=\"u regular username\" href=\"http:\/\/theautumnleaves.deviantart.com\/\">TheAutumnLeaves<\/a><\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\">DeviantArt<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>#3 Opening Christmas with the tree lights as a Bokeh in the background<\/h3>\n<p>This is one of my absolute favorites. You could replicate this by simply adding a light in whatever package the child was opening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/629\/2014\/12\/3_PackageWith-Lights-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"3 Package With Lights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernlensmagazine.com\/christmas-photo-ideas-plus-a-quick-video-lesson-to-help-you-shoot-them\/2\/\">GO TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR THE VIDEO TUTORIAL<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div><\/div><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The following tutorial is all about how to create that beautiful Bokeh light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Evan from photoextremist.com shows us the various camera settings necessary to achieve this look with the string of Christmas lights. It&#8217;s really easy to achieve you can do it with a short or long lens and with a low or, medium aperture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPcdWxhLwoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Photo Ideas- Example Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[140,214,256,118,112,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernlensmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}