Fifty-two Fridays | Bay Area Photographer | Bokeh

This year I’ve teamed up with 19 fabulously talented photographers in a project called Fifty-Two Fridays.  Each week we have a theme and our challenge is to post an image that best represents that theme.  We are more than half-way through the year and I continue to be inspired and pushed creatively by my fellow photographers.

This week’s theme:

According to Ken Rockwell,  Bokeh describes the appearance, or “feel,” of out-of-focus areas. Bokeh is not how far something is out-of-focus, bokeh is the character of whatever blur is there.

I rented two lenses this week for my Rock-the-dress session I did with Kelli and Mark.  I’ve had both the Nikon 85mm 1.4 and the Nikon 14-24mm 2.5 in my hot little hands for the past few days.  I’m not sure I’ll be able to send them back tomorrow!  Since I had them this week I thought it would be fun to use the 85 to capture some beautiful bokeh.  Doesn’t Murphy’s Law state that whenever you try to do something, it never works out and when you aren’t trying, that’s when it happens?  Well, that’s kind of what happened to me this week.  While I wanted to shoot someone close up with the background far away to create creamy bokeh, my youngest was wielding his light saber so dramatically that I used up all that was left of the golden hour, shooting his imaginary battle with The Sith Lord.  And while this isn’t exactly what I had in mind, I did manage to get some house and tree bokeh in these.

Now head on over to my sweet friend Jolie Starrett – Dallas Photographer to see her bokeh goodness this week!