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Monday, December 12, 2011

Santa Came to Town!

Had so much fun photographing Santa! This will be an annual thing for Bellissimo Photography!

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Friday, November 4, 2011

HDR Photography

Here's my first attempt at HDR photography. I find it intriguing. I've seen a lot of really awesome images processed this way. Sometimes they can come out a little cartoony and other times they can come out more realistic. Either way, it's an art form in itself. If you're unfamiliar with it, it involves merging 3 pictures of the same scene. One properly exposed, one over exposed by 2 stops and one under exposed by 2 stops. It's a fairly easy process if you have the software. If have not bought it yet, that's why there are watermarks on the after picture.

Before

After

Before

After

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Bokeh!

What a fun technique! I will be playing with this a lot more in the future!

This is a picture of blurry Christmas lights completely unedited. If you cut out a shape from a card or piece of paper and then put it in front of your lens, it will turn all the blurry lights into that shape! You'll have to play with it a little to get the right size. It's a lot of fun! I'm going to try different shapes as well! There are many tutorials on youtube if you search for 'bokeh photography'. Try it out! It's really cool!

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