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« on: November 29, 2011, 06:52:14 PM »

Take photos of your kids toys  Grin

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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 07:42:57 PM »

Love this shot of the toy.  How do you get the lens flare? Was it on purpose and did you get the colors in PP?  Eager to learn.. Valerie
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2012, 05:00:50 PM »

The bokeh? It's a Christmas tree with the lights on in the background.  It's just a matter of using a thin depth of field with a dark background and the lights on.  In this case I was using a 50mm prime lens set to f/1.8.  If you don't have one I highly recommend it as they're very cheap, ultra sharp, and ultra fast for the money.

Get as close as you can to your subject and keep your subject as far away as you can from the background lights and you'll get the smoothing out of the background and the lights flaring up into round discs Smiley 

The only PP was a bit of noise reduction.
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