Hands-on Night: Bokeh

Influential Photographer:  Roberta Bondar

“My hypothesis is that if you fall in love with something you’ll embrace it as part of your heritage.  I think that if people are committing to actually taking a picture and seeing what they photograph, it really makes them look — and that’s when people have respect. That’s when people honour and people maintain.” — Roberta Bondar

Hands-on Night: Capturing beautiful Bokeh for sparkling images

Tina will quickly review how to capture Bokeh before you get your camera out to play with twinkle lights.

There will be stations available for in-person – I have 8 sets of LED mini lights that are battery run – and I will bring some subjects.  If you prefer to follow along at home, that is okay too, but you will have to supply your own lights and subject (string of Christmas lights, or mini-LED lights work great).

For in-person, feel free to bring in some small subjects to work with and/or your own battery powered lights if you have them.

To capture dreamy bokeh you need to work with the widest aperture you can get – if you have a lens that can do f/4, f/2.8, f/1.8, f/1.2 that would be the lens to use.  Standard or telephoto – but not a wide angle lens works best.

Unleash your creativity, and have fun!

Bring your camera and tripod.