366 of 2012 - Day 15

366 of 2012 - Day 15. I'm a bit late to the Bokeh party. It was the Picaboo theme for Week 1 of this year. I don't have a DSLR camera, so I didn't have any luck getting any shots of our Christmas tree lights using a Bokeh effect with the tutorial provided. It didn't help that we'd taken down our Christmas tree the day before I joined the Picaboo 365 Project, so I didn't really have much in the way of 'pretty, light-y subject'.

Luckily, as I was driving home from my folks' place Saturday night, someone on their block still had lights up, so I stopped the car, turned around and parked across the street from the still wonderfully, light-y decorated home.

Yup, (wait for it...) I thought I'd give it a shot. *snicker*

So I tried every automatic setting, hoping I'd get a decent blur. Took me a while, but I think I finally got it. I set my Canon PowerShot G12 to the Automatic P setting, which I have learned is the Program setting. I didn't actually program anything. So basically I just fluked out. Winning!

Above: Shot with Canon PowerShot G12, set to "P" - Program (using default settings), f/4.5, 1/6 sec., ISO-1600, 30mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, subject distance 560 mm, no flash. I cropped the shot quite a bit, using Photoshop. No other alterations to the shot.

Above: Shot with Canon PowerShot G12, set to "P" - Program (using default settings), f/4.5, 1/6 sec., ISO-1600, 30mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, subject distance 560 mm, no flash. No alterations to the shot, other than cropping to 72 ppi and adding text.

Above: Shot with Canon PowerShot G12, set to - actually I'm not sure. It was one of the automatic settings. I know it blurred a bit and I moved the camera to see what would happen. Shot is f/4.5, 1 sec. exposure time, ISO-800, 30mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, subject distance 4.3 m (not sure why this is different than previous - I was still in the car), no flash. No alterations to the shot, other than cropping to 72 ppi and adding text.

Above: Shot with Canon PowerShot G12, set to - actually I'm not sure. It was one of the automatic settings. I know it blurred a bit and I moved the camera to see what would happen. Shot is f/4.5, 0.8 sec. exposure time, ISO-800, 30mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, subject distance 5.9m (not sure why this is different than previous - I was still in the car), no flash. No alterations to the shot, other than cropping to 72 ppi and adding text.

Above: Shot with Canon PowerShot G12, set to Auto, I think. Shot is f/4.5, 1/15 sec. exposure time, ISO-6400, 30mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, subject distance 4.6 m (not sure why this is different than all previous - I was in the car the whole time - maybe I adjusted the zoom?), no flash. No alterations to the shot, other than cropping to 72 ppi and adding text.