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It’s day 34 and in three days I’ll get 10% of my Project 365 done. I’m sort of lacking ideas for photos at the moment. Especially on work days it’s difficult to be innovative because when I get home, it’s already dark outside. I’m hoping to improve my project quality next weekend. Here’s today’s photo which was inspired by my lack of inspiration.
According to Wikipedia:
…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.”
‘Bokeh’ can be seen in two ways: some think that bokeh is only the round shaped out-of-focus spots but some think that all out-of-focus (blurry) areas are bokeh. In this article I’m referring to the round shaped spots when I mention bokeh.
Bokeh can be good or bad. Lens’ aperture size and shape affect to the quality and look of the bokeh. Some lenses are good or great bokeh lenses while other are worse. For example, the bokeh of my modernish Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens is usually swirly and chaotic but the bokeh of my old Nikon Series E 50mm f/1.8 AI-S lens from the 1980s is usually round and pretty (or at least rounder and prettier).
Usually there are the in-focus areas and the out-of-focus areas in a photo. The more the area is out-of-focus, the stronger the blur is. Bokeh is formed if there are lighter or glowing spots in the out-of-focus area. The further away the spots are from the in-focus area, the stronger the bokeh is.
Yesterday I went for a short walk and intentionally took a few out-of-focus photos. The photos below are taken with the Nikon Series E 50mm f/1.8 AI-S lens (wide open) and they have not been post-processed in any way except for the resizing. To create effects like in the photos below you just need to manually focus to the front of the light sources. The more you focus forward, the bigger the bokeh circles are.
Christmas lights (21 / 365 of Project 365)
Colorful Christmas lights
Lights by the road
No, I’m not quitting on my Project 365 just yet but after I missed another day (14th of January) I re-made my decision and set my photography project to start on 1st of January instead of the original 3rd of January. It’s 19th of January now and I have photos for each day except for 2nd and 14th. I try to keep up with this project as long as possible but I’m not going to panic if I skip more days in the future.
Here’s the photo number 17 of 365:
Taken with Nikon EM and M42 mount Porst 135mm f/2.8 on Kodak TMAX 400 black and white film