click.artistry blog » bokeh http://www.clickartistry.com/blog Michelle Shefveland's Creative Imagery Blog Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:39:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 simply spring http://www.clickartistry.com/blog/2011/05/simply-spring/ http://www.clickartistry.com/blog/2011/05/simply-spring/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 18:38:38 +0000 michelle http://www.clickartistry.com/blog/?p=1282 v2011_05_18a141-custom_1

Condensing the recent nature work I’ve done, enjoying the immense beauty that erupts from a stark Minnesota winter.

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I love shooting into the sun near sunset…just something about the softness, bokeh light in the background, and unexpected colors that draws me to this type of imagery.

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Something I just realized…I believe most nature photographers shoot landscape orientation, but I find myself almost exclusively shooting portrait orientation. Maybe it’s because of the macro work or my portraiture…I have no idea why…I just subconsciously rotate the camera.

All shot with a Canon 7D and the following lenses: Canon 80mm/1.8, Canon 50mm/1.8, Tamron 70-300mm/macro

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All shot with my 70-300mm macro at 180-300 from f/4.6 to f/5.3, iso 200

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Oh, how I love chasing the evening light (yes, for all who know me certainly not the morning light-except in Molokai, Dewitt!).

There were a few apple blossoms on a little tree growing wild in woods near our lake home and I just couldn’t playing with the light one evening.

And, I couldn’t resist the dogwoods at our local garden park. I don’t believe it’s common to have dogwoods in Minnesota, so what a treat! Photos of them coming soon!

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