On this occasion I was shooting the downtown holiday lighting in my own hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. We have a great little main street and a very photogenic courthouse so all that was needed to make it “just right” was a little bit of snow. It worked out pretty well, and I like the shot they chose for the editor’s letter page:[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”3817″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”25″][vc_column_text]For those curious about the photographic details, the above was shot on a Nikon D810 with a manual focus Rokinon 85mm lens — f\/2.0, 1\/400th of a second at ISO 200.<\/p>\n
I chose the 85 because it has very nice bokeh — meaning that the out-of-focus areas are really smooth and creamy. By getting some lights in the foreground, achieved by shooting through a tree across the street from the courthouse, I could turn those tiny tree lights into big balls of out-of-focus color.<\/p>\n
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