Photo Assignment: Seasonal: Holiday's 2007

[Gdad]

Santa visiting Canada

 

[AndrewWG]

Just messing around last night and took some pics of some of the ornaments on our tree.

 

[boBQuincy]

Canadian Santa warning us about Nalyuks.

 

[NostalgicDad]

Sleeping Beauty's castle by day......

Sleeping Beauty's castle by night......

 

[pisco]

Here are a few from our town's Festival of Lights a couple of weekends ago.

Let it Snow!


Brighton Bulldog


Lights


Snowman


Tree detail

 

[EasyGoing*]

How do you get the star effect on the cristmas tree lights?

 

[AndrewWG]

How do you get the star effect on the cristmas tree lights?

Use a real narrow aperture. I shoot in Av mode (aperture priority) and use an fstop of anywhere from 11-22 generally. That should create the star effect. Of course, I usually shoot with no lights on but the tree lights and use a tripod. The shutter speed can be as long as 30 seconds sometimes.

 

[AndrewWG]

Here is one that I forgot to take last night. My all time favorite! Go Pats!

 

[Gdad]

How do you get the star effect on the cristmas tree lights?

Use a real narrow aperture. I shoot in Av mode (aperture priority) and use an fstop of anywhere from 11-22 generally. That should create the star effect. Of course, I usually shoot with no lights on but the tree lights and use a tripod. The shutter speed can be as long as 30 seconds sometimes.

A Cross Screen Filter will also accompish this.

 

[AndrewWG]

A Cross Screen Filter will also accompish this.

Those filters are pretty cool. I used to have one called "star filter" back in the film days. I barely ever used it though. Of course, I really didn't have a clue what I was doing back then. Now I have about half a clue. I'm getting the cokin filter adapters and stuff for Christmas so all I will need to do is pick out filters for it! They are the expensive part, but I'm looking forward to a graduated ND filter. The local Ritz only had ND4 which I thought was too dark. I may pick up one of the star effect ones too.

 

[NostalgicDad]

Here's a few ornaments from our tree. Something I've never really done before for some reason but it's a great idea.

 

[MicMin]

Osborne lights.

Santa and Mrs. Claus at Epcot.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Japanese storyteller with DS at Epcot on 12/15.

 

[Miller1412]

I must have food on the brain...

A little nod to Disney

LOL...Unintentional Self-Portrait

 

[Gdad]

Oh- You just HAD to post this? And where exactly am I supposed to find some of these at 9:30 on Christmas night?

 

[OceanStateKelly]

this pictures about 19 years old

 

[Mic_n_Min]

Here is a picture of my Christmas tree that I took a few nights ago. ISO 100, f/22, white balance was set to Tungsten and a 30-second exposure all set up on a tripod. This is my favorite photo from the holiday season so far!

 

[Suburbanmom]

My husband's family owns a Bed & Breakfast near Cincinnati. It a beautiful old Victorian style home...way prettier than my 4 bedroom ranch! Here's a few shots from our visit to them on Christmas Eve.

(The obligatory self-portrait )

 

[Michele]

 

[Luv2Camp]

Waiting patiently to open the gifts.........