Week 30 by Becky

MERRY CHRISTMAS NWGs!

Judy and I have been trying to get the bokeh effect on purpose. With no luck. Well, here I finally achieved the bokeh affect on purpose. The key is to have your subject away from the lights with the aperture between 2.8 and 7.3. I used my 105mm macro lens here. The lighted Christmas tree was in the background. You can see the tree in the glass ornament. Now I will have to experiment with little cutouts to get different shaped bokeh.

Week 28 by Becky

Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars!

Finally put up the Christmas tree with all the handmade ornaments and photo ornaments of the kids since they were born. That is a lot of ornaments. Played around with my Cokin star filter. Used Topaz Adjust Comic Book on it in Photoshop.