It's All About Me!!!: photography

Tyler and Mimi...

Recent photo shoot of my good friend Jeanie and her Grandson Tyler who was here visiting....such a sweet little boy...

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Photography Challenge....

Here is the April Photogaphy Challenge at K2 Scrapbook Studio this month....

This month I want to share with you some info about Depth of Field and Bokeh Blur....we had a challenge a while back the dealt with depth of field, it was the flower challenge and I had you take a photo where the focus was on the flower and background was blurred.

This month I would like you take a photo where the background has a bokeh blur....what is that you ask.....well here is an explanation of that and a photo I recently took with a bokeh blur....

In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur,in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively.Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas.

It simple terms try to take a photo of someone or something where the background is blurred...but this time try to capture light in the back ground that would give you the bokeh blur...which makes it look like circles of light...here is an example...

as you can see here the blur in the background where there is light forms beautiful circles of light....that is what I challenge you to do this month...

here is another example...this one of course is more obvious...love the interest is adds to the photo....have fun and I cannot wait to see what you come up with...

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Venice High Girls Soccer team...

I had the privilege of taking photos of Tori's High School Soccer team...Love shooting teens....always fun...

and of course the goofy photo...silly soccer girls....

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Photo Shoot Share....

It has been a while since I have shared some photos from recent shoots...here are some of my favorites...

Senior Photo shoot...

Family photo shoot...

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Textures & TTV's

Day five and six of Jessic Spraque's photo editing class..

TTV (day six)

Textures...(day five)

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photo lesson three and four...

here is lesson three...which showed us how to give a vintage feel to your photography...

and lesson 4 using a grunge mask...

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Photo editing...

signed up for Jessic Sprague's free Photo Editing Class....finally got around to doing the first two lessons...which included framing a photo and using brushes...here is a sample of my first to photos...

This photo is me with my Grandfather in 1964 using a frame.

same photo with a brush.

Still have to catch up a a few more lessons...will share those soon.

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01:56 PM in photography | Permalink | Comments (1)

so excited....

First because of this....

This is my photo on the cover of the magazine. This is Tori's soccer coach and his wife. Idid several photos for the magazine this month...including one that Tori was in with a few other Venice High Students. If you live locally I can tell you where you can purchase the magazine. I am so excited to be apart of this magazine and joining in from the begining as it grows and becomes more successful....

and the next thing that I am so excited about is this seasons winner of American Idol....."Kris Allen"...I jus love him....I thought he was adorable and had a great vocals, his own style and the boy-next-door image, can't wait to hear more from him.....I will say with all the hype I thought for sure it was going to be Adam....but isn't he just so cute...and what a humble and sweet guy....

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Show and Tell Friday...

Wanted to share so photos from some recent shoots I have done for the Venice Magazine...These are from the Teen shoot...will share the family and couple later this week....Have a great weekend and don't forgot to celebrate NSD...(National Scrapbook Day) tomrrow....