Slice of Life Saturday: In San Francisco

Christmas in any big city is an experience but if you can get to experience the season in one of the biggest, you are bound to love it.  San Francisco was great because...hey, it is warm in California, even by the bay.

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I hope all of you had a safe holiday! Now it is time to get into 2011!

DIY: Bokeh Filter

I had some friends ask how I did this Bokeh filter after they say it on Facebook.  I honestly didn't know that many people were interested but here you go.

This is seriously, ALL IN CAMERA.  There is no real trick to it at all.  If you can make your pictures out of focus, you can make Bokeh.

Find a tutorial for how to make Bokeh effect anywhere else online, and do the same thing that you would have normally done and it will magically turn out hearts.  It sounds too easy to work but I swear...it is that easy.

It will turn this:

To this:

Or this:

Have fun and comment on this to let me know if you give it a try! I would love to see what you do!

Slice of Life Saturday: More Christmas Bokeh

I was looking up more information on bokeh filters today and made a fun discovery.  For those of you who don't know, you can buy different filters to make the bokeh effect go from circles to...say, hearts.  I was thinking, wow, that is really cool.

Then I learned something cooler.  You can make your own.  All you need is a shape hole punch and some black paper.  Do the same thing that you would normally do to make a bokeh effect and watch the magic.

My in-laws love what I did with their Christmas tree.

Bokeh Christmas Eve

Today was the first day I that experimented with bokeh.  It seems to be one of the most popular things right now so I decided to give it a try.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Slice of Life Saturday: Bright Night Hike

After it snows, and the ground is covered, it is very hard to sleep at night.  The light it bouncing off of everything. One night, I crept out of the house in the middle of the night with my camera and had some fun walking around and taking pictures in the low light.  It was so much fun.

4th of July...Way Late

Life got crazy for me in August and I never got around to putting up pictures from the 4th of July.  It wasn't anything that special up here and so I didn't think that it was worth worrying about.

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