Magical Photos of Insects Shot Using Ordinary Household Objects
The photographs in Nadav Bagim‘s project “WonderLand” might look like paintings or computer generated images, but they’re actually real photographs captured at home using ordinary objects and creative artificial lighting. His tools and props include things like vegetables, plastic bags, flowers, and leaves, and he captures the images using a Canon 60D and 100mm f/2.8...
Monthly Photo Challenge – December
The Monthly Challenge for December is bokeh. There is one thing about this challenge that make it a little more than just bokeh. For this challenge the bokeh must be of either light or snow as shown in the images included with the article. What Bokeh is: Bokeh is the out of focus portion of...
You Can Increase Sharpness a Lot by Stopping Down Just a Little
You probably know that stopping down (i.e. increasing your f-stop number) can increase the sharpness of your subject, but how much should you stop down to boost resolution without losing that nice, creamy bokeh? Roger Cicala did some research on this question and writes: For those lenses that do benefit, stopping down just to f/2.0...
Fiddle with Focus to Add Some Bokeh to Long Exposure Night Shots
Claus Thiim captured this beautiful image of fireworks showing both in-focus and out-of-focus burst of light. The trick is to capture most of the photograph while focused on the fireworks, and then throw the lens out of focus shortly before the shutter closes. On a slightly related note, check out this crazy video of an...
Your Weekend Photography Project – Bokeh
Bokeh refers to the quality of the points of light in the out-of-focus areas of a photo (typically in the background of an image when using a shallow depth of field). Bokeh can be subtle and it can be overt – it can accent a photograph or it can be the subject of a photograph....
Sticking a GoPro to the side of the subway? Yikes
While not an HDSLR, the goPro has been used in a lot of very different ways – and HDSLR shooter Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher (you can see one of his videos on bokeh here on planet5D) has decided to put a goPro to the test and sent planet5D this first look at his unique short “Take Me...
New accessories from 4DSLR – bokeh kit and h4n audio mic holder
We’re always looking for new gear aren’t we? Here’s a new set of HDSLR accessories for a variety of needs – a Zoom H4n holder, a custom bokeh kit, and more from 4DSLR.com which is being offered by Brandan Fisher 4DSLR background 4DSLR started with my vision for the Zoom Cradle. I was on a...
How to Give Your Bokeh Custom Shapes
Here’s another video tutorial teaching how to give your bokeh custom shapes. When a point of light in a photograph is out of focus, it turns into a shape defined by the lens’s aperture. We can create a second, smaller, aperture to attach to the front of our lens in order to customize that shape....
Beautiful Look at the Canon 50mm f/1.0
Flickr user Frannie 1 shot these beautiful photographs of the rare Canon 50mm f/1.0. The lens currently goes for over $4,000 used on eBay. That is one beautiful piece of glass!
(via Photojojo)
Image credits: Photographs by Frannie 1 and used with per...
Incredibly Cheap And Easy DIY Bokeh Effect
DIY bokeh from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. I’ve talked a bit about bokeh in the past. I think its a fascinating effect. While it might not be appropriate for a lot of projects, it can offer a unique look. Eirik Solheim found a fairly easy way to create a DIY bokeh effect using black paper...
Chinese New Year Captured By DSLRs
2011: The Year of the Rabbit from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. DLSR News Shooter posted a beautiful video from Chinese New Year in Beijing. Using a Canon 7D and a 5D mark II, Jonah Kessel and friends captured the amazing holiday firework displays from the small firecrackers to the monstrous palm explosions around town. I...
Floating Light Words with Custom Bokeh
Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher had the brilliant idea of using custom bokeh to spell out words in his videos, and spent a good amount of time developing and perfecting the idea. The above video, titled “Light Works”, is a demonstration of this technique in action. The results are pretty awesome. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how it...
