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Spring Freshness

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:50:05 -0700

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Freshly picked today :-)

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A spoonful of bokeh

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:52:43 -0700

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I found my shamrock craftpunch today, so I decided to make a little custom bokeh :-)

If you want to know how this is done, you can read about it in my tutorial.

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Blue Beauties

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:50:35 -0700

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These grow in our garden :-)

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How to make custom bokeh

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:10:18 -0800

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Lots of people make bokeh masks as tubes or covers of some kind. But why complicate if you can do it very quickly and with no sticky-tape mess and measuring?

Here are the instructions on how to make a quick bokeh mask:

1. Check the diameter of your lens. Here, you can see that I used a 52mm lens (it was the EF 50mm f/1.8 lens).

2. Take some paper that is black at least on one side to block the excessive light out. If it's black on both sides, even better. If you don't have such paper, you can take some white paper and colour a part of it with a black waterproof marker and let it dry completely.

3. You will make a circle that will fit inside your UV lens filter. For that, you need to calculate the radius of the circle (it's the diameter divided by 2):
52mm lens --> 26mm radius of the circle
58mm lens --> 29mm radius of the circle. etc.

4. Take a pair of compasses and draw the circle. Then, take the scissors and cut the circle out.

5. Now, find the middle of the circle (it's where the compasses made its little whole in the paper) and draw your motive there. The motive must be small enough. If it's too big, the bokeh won't get its shapes. The smaller the motive, the better. A very good advice about the size of the motive is to take the zoom of your lens and divide it by its lowest aperture, for example:
my 50mm lens has the lowest aperture of 1.8 --> 50mm / 1.8 = 25mm (approximately) --> the motive must be 25mm big or smaller.

6. Use a scalpel or a very sharp knife to cut out the motive.

Alternately, you can use a craft punch (one of those little paper punches that will cut out shapes) and cut the motive with that. This is what I did with my circle. I had to fold up a part of the circle to squeeze the paper into the punch, but that doesn't matter, because that will not show up on your photo anyway.

7. Insert the cicle into the UV filter from the outside - like you would put on the lens cover.

8. Set your lens focus to Manual.

9. You're ready to make some bokeh!

10. Experiment. Use different light sources, stand at different distances from the lights. I learnt that the bokeh turns out better and sharper if you stand further away from the lightsource.

11. Have fun!!! :-)

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Pink Explosion

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:58:16 -0700

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These are growing in our garden :-)

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Morning Surprise

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:17:31 -0700

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I wanted to hang out some washing this morning, and this beauty was waiting for me. It was a moth, sleeping on a clothes peg :-)

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Fire

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:20:54 -0700

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The latest addition to my garden :-)

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Fragile Beauty

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:08:20 -0700

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I have a patch of forget-me-nots in the backyard :-)

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Braille reference charts

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:11:38 -0700

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While Grade 1 Braille consists of the basic alphabet, the punctuation and a few other symbols, Grade 2 Braille is much more demanding since it consists of about 300 abbreviations. I know most of the abbreviations already, but I still make mistakes. So, I decided to make myself some reference charts. They function like a mini dictionary and enable me to check the combinations of dots for various abbreviations. Although the abbreviations can be found on the Internet and simply printed out, I transcribed mine into Braille so that I can read them just by touch. This way, I can quickly find the right abbreviation and avoid making mistakes.

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Baby Lavender

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:39:59 -0700

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I have a flower-pot of lavender on my kitchen window. It keeps the flies, the mosquitoes and other bugs out. It finally started to blossom today :-)

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Happy Birthday Echo :-)

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:21:46 -0700

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Yep, it's my bithday today :-)

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Lunar Eclipse of the Full Moon (Part 3): Nearly Out of the Shadow

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:08:50 -0700

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Yesterday I spent about 2 hours on the balcony shooting the total lunar eclipse of the full moon. My "battle equipment" was: Cullmann tripod (the big one), my trusty Canon EOS 450D, the 75-300mm lens and the infrared remote control. I shot 60 photos, mostly with a 4 seconds exposure. I managed to brighten up the photos with a few details, too.

Here, the moon was already behind some branches of the big birch tree in our back yard. The tree leaves were bathing in the light of the street lamp, which made the lovely golden bokeh around the moon.

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Flower bokeh with Christmas lights

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:10:26 -0800

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My first try with bokeh shapes :-)

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Zadoc the Imperial Jumptrooper is a little criminal (Part 1)

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:25:28 -0700

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I caught Zadoc the Imperial Jumptrooper when he was running away from the police the other night. He absolutely refused to go to jail (which you can see in the background), so he ran away and the police car followed him. Apparently he had stolen too much of his precious vitamin-loaded crispy gold (= cornflakes) and now he is in big trouble. Will he get away? Stay tuned and find out...

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Backyard Provanse

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:56:19 -0700

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Sometime in the middle of summer I decided I wanted lavender in my backyard. So, I bought 8 saplings, which looked pretty shabby at first. However, a little bit of TLC and the lavender is now blossoming like crazy :-) So, now I have a backyard Provanse in the autumn :-)

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You lookin' at me?

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:28:46 -0700

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This boy wasn't affraid of me at all. The closer I got to him with my camera, the more eagerly he ate :-)

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Summery Fresh

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:47:50 -0700

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After a long time, one for the "Fresh" file again :-)

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Violet

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:20:31 -0700

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Growing in our garden :-)

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Yellow Beauty

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:58:59 -0700

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Picked today on my morning walk :-)

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A little sunshine

nobody@flickr.com (Cobra_11) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:44:13 -0700

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Have a great weekend!

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