Beautiful Bokeh Chat thread for weekly competition 22nd - 28th November 2010

[jinky]

As it seems to be the start of christmas with lights everywhere I thought let`s see some bokeh. Whether natural / electric light, custom bokeh or what let us see some lovely images with that lens wide open.

Pictures to be taken between 00.01am Monday 22nd November to Sunday 28th November.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 29th November
Poll will be up Tuesday 30th November  until Friday 3rd December
Winner to be announced Saturday 4th December

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to
post a topic on the Sunday following your declared win
create an entries thread
create a chat thread
create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie sunday xx to Monday xx

pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59 Monday night

[Hinfrance]

Looks like I've got to get something wide on my tool for this one.

Are we allowed to cheat with paper cutouts on our ends?

[jinky]

Cheat away H - that`s why I pout "custom" down. Don`t know if I will. I get a lot of vignetting with those DIY bokeh filters I made on my D700. Suppose could always get the old D80 out.

[jinky]

I went with the cut outs myself in the end H - when I remembered I needed to do an entry!
As you can tell I used the snowflake shape. Learned two things today:
1. My diy custom bokeh set does not work with the full frame D700 - too much vignetting and too little light in
2. Don`t worry when security follow you around. This guy was on my case for ages looking / following as I went around the stalls in our German Christmas market - then tapped me on the shoulder to ask how it worked and what the images looked like. I could have made a sale if I wanted to spend the time making some more.

[Graham]

  However you do it, it works a treat.
                      Graham.

[Hinfrance]

Too early here for Christmas lights I'm afraid, so I've just gone with a blurred background.

[SimonW]

I've voted - for the picture (word chosen carefully) I liked best. I liked the complete picture for all sorts of reasons, but perhaps the main subject, the blackbird, is what really attracted me to it. Now though, I wonder... given the title of this challenge, should I perhaps have tried to ignore the foreground and judge ONLY the background?

Simon

[jinky]

Whoops - thanks for the votes all - I`ll think of a theme over breakfast and post asap.

[Hinfrance]

Congrats Paul - very nice balls you have there.

[Oldboy]

Well done Jinky. 

Thanks for the votes all.