timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

THE LAST of the Texas Tech photos and what better way to cap them off by some more bokeh pictures! {In photography, “bokeh” is a term that’s used to refer to the quality of out-of-focus portions of a photograph.}

Had to play with the BOKEH from the Christmas lights from The Carol of Lights. It would have been derelict for me to ignore it.

I had a limited window to take pics that night as it was out last night in town. I could have spent another 2 hours easily. One thing I would do next time is duplicate some of the same shots but using my Canon 50/1.4. You want to talk about bokeh, son, that lens has got bokeh cubed!

It’s not noisy, there were a lot of stars out! ;-)

A lot I say!!

Ok, so this one is closer to what it looked like in person.

2 things I didn’t notice as I was framing this, the Christmas tree on the right and the way the light hits the top of each line of stairs. I’m pretty sure the latter would be barely noticeable if at all had I not used HDR. Much in the same manner that I thought the boring dull gray sky from the daytime pictures turned out to be anything but boring and dull.

Love this building. It was the first one I went inside I think during the day (12/23). They were doing a complete remodel job on the top floor. It had potential for some interesting pitures but the lighting was way too strong.

I was barely able to fit this one with the 24mm TSE.

I was standing on the top of wall, a fountain, and I did not have much room to maneuver. I was quite pleased to fit it though!