10/25/2011

Day 20: Bokeh

This prompt was the one that made this whole challenge come to a screeching halt for me.  I was cruising along taking pictures most days even if I wasn't posting them but then I hit bokeh.  I had to google the word just to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do.  I'm pretty sure my point and shoot camera doesn't have the settings to accomplish this kind of photo purposefully and if it does I don't know how to make it do it.  I talked to Joe about it and he wasn't sure my camera could do it either.  So after hemming and hawing about it for close to a week I decided to cheat and steal a picture that Joe took while we were in Utah.  While I didn't actually snap the photo I did edit it, that counts right?
Ok, so I obviously didn't try searching the internet very hard because I just googled "can my point and shoot take a bokeh photo" and found this article http://mansurovs.com/bokeh-on-point-and-shoot-cameras.  Then in the last five minutes using stuff around my office I managed to take this:
Don't I feel like an idoit...

1 comment:

  1. I didn't know what that was either! I take lots of those photos! LoL!!

    And that picture Joe took is just amazing!!
    ~Ang

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