More to come!

More to come!

This was something I learned to do some time ago, but never played with it. The trick to it is to understand that the out of focus shapes of the lights in your image is actually shaped by the aperture in your camera. More often than not this shape is a circular or octagon shaped. With this knowledge, one can profess that changing the shape will give you different OOF effects, for example the Christmas tree shape above. To do that, you simply cut out a shape of something and place it in front of the lens. The trick to it is that has to be small than the aperture inside the lens. For example, with the 50mm 1.8, the front element is recessed and smaller than the lens opening, so the shape has to be smaller than you would normally think. This effect works best with primes which have a large aperture.

I've got you in my sight

This was one of those images that just jumped at me when I took it, and I knew exactly where I wanted to go with it. It was meant to be a relatively morbid image, so the blacks and contrast was increased substantially, and a heavy level of vignetting was added. Additionally, a green tint was given to image to give it the grim look, similar to what was found in the Matrix movies when they were in the Matrix itself. A small narrative was also added to help deliver the idea of dark side of the modern photographic process.