My towns Xmas tree.

IceCanAm · Dec 4, 2012

One of my practice photos, The town workers could have done better work spreading the lights, this side has the most of them but still some parts missing and the other sides have less.
The Exif is 6 sec / F22 / Iso 100 / 32mm

Another of the tree. by Kjartan Guðmundur, on Flickr

Red_John · Dec 4, 2012

nice shot dude

IceCanAm · Dec 4, 2012

Red_John said:
nice shot dude

Thanks.

jowensphoto · Dec 4, 2012

I like the use of a small aperture to get the starburst effect from the lights, but the long shutter speed required for such a small aperture reveals too much of the background. Perhaps find a happy medium between the two so you lose more background.

You can also try a "bokeh effect filter" or whatever it's called. Very easy to make, just cut a circle out of sturdy paper (a size that will fit in front of your lens' front element), then cut out a design in the middle for the star. If you are a skilled artist, you'll be able to make it more realistic rather than cheesy.

IceCanAm · Dec 4, 2012

jowensphoto said:
I like the use of a small aperture to get the starburst effect from the lights, but the long shutter speed required for such a small aperture reveals too much of the background. Perhaps find a happy medium between the two so you lose more background.

You can also try a "bokeh effect filter" or whatever it's called. Very easy to make, just cut a circle out of sturdy paper (a size that will fit in front of your lens' front element), then cut out a design in the middle for the star. If you are a skilled artist, you'll be able to make it more realistic rather than cheesy.

Thanks for the tip. i will look into that.

Frequency · Dec 5, 2012

Beautiful; i would trim some from right; that would also make the tree out of center

IceCanAm · Dec 7, 2012

I trimmed a little bit from the right side. And used photoshop to add more lights were i felt it was naked. Does it look better now than before.

Original.

Another of the tree. by Kjartan Guðmundur, on Flickr

Modified.

Modified Xmas tree. by Kjartan Guðmundur, on Flickr