Christmas Light Bokeh

Sunday, 16 Dec 2007 | Flickr, Photography

I've noticed a trend to shoot photographs out of focus to show off lights as orbs on Flickr. It's not uncommon to see these unfocused lights in the background of photographs taken with fast lenses wide open, but recently people have been taking photos with no focused subject. In other words, the subject is simply the bokeh. It's interesting to see how a trend can spread so quickly on Flickr. And since it's the holiday season, Christmas lights are a popular subject used to create bokeh photographs.

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chadvw said at 10:07 AM on Monday, December 17, 2007

I think this quote sums things up pretty easily:

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus is an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus is a style. ~Author Unknown

Rimi Som said at 10:12 PM on Monday, December 24, 2007

U r such a good photographer ...

disneymike said at 12:05 AM on Saturday, January 19, 2008

chadvw - Very nice quote. I like it! ;)

Rimi Som - Thank you so much! :)

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