Friday, February 24, 2012

Light of Lanterns




For the ancient Chinese, the lanterns symbolize prosperity, unity, and blessing. That's why Lanterns always used in many Chinese festivals, such an Imlek (Chinese New Year).

Taken those lanterns pictures during Imlek 2012 at Ketandan, Yogyakarta. Ketandan is kampong which residents mostly are chinese and make a live so the area is known as Chinatown of Jogya.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Sight Seeing Bogor









60km south from Jakarta, Bogor has a nickname "the Rain City" (Kota Hujan) because always rains even during the dry season.



Here just - another sight seeing - capturing while joined the Harris Hotel Photo Hunt for Grand Opening its branch.

Which one of those pictures become 60's Best Photo?
Win a lunch with me..XD !

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Let's Play Bokeh





Those who are put a photography as their interest must be familiar with this art aesthetic quality of the blur called “bokeh”. Comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze".


Bokeh is what happens away from the point of best focus while sharpness is what happens at the point of best focus.
Good bokeh doesn't happen automatically in lens design. Good bokeh is especially important for large-aperture lenses, macro lenses, and long telephoto lenses because they are typically used with a shallow depth of field.


There are two types of Bokeh

> Circular (Hollywood) Style:
( Where the bright highlighted ares become s completely circular in the blurred out background ).
Any lens can deliver Hollywood bokeh, it occurs when the background have bright highlight, it will cause circular bokeh except the subject you are photographing at.

> Creamy Bokeh / Cream Cheese Bokeh
( Where the background of the subject are completely washed and blurred out creating”gradient “effect)

How do we get those bokeh ?
It’s all depend of the distance between your subject and the front element of the lens . The closer you get, more blurry your background gets. Using the highest aperture ( from f/1.4 to f/2.8) will get the better blurry background.

How to See Bokeh In Existing Images ?
If they all blend together nicely, that's nice bokeh. If they are perfect little circles, then that's neutral bokeh. If they are all swimmy and look little little rolled up condoms or donuts, then that's bad bokeh (kenrockwell)

Getting bored with Creamy Style Bokeh? let's play with the Hollywood Style Bokeh using the Xmast light. It's really fun!

7D / (50/f1.4 ; 28/f1.8; 75-300)