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Last night i headed out towards a well decorated house down the street, 26 Pindari st to be precise.

Out the front of a house near mine. It takes them ~3 months to set it all up (in their spare time)

The wonderful thing about christmas lights is the bokeh they create

I closed the 50mm up to 3.5 for that nice hexagon bokeh

This one is the same as the other photo except that I opened up the f stop to the full 1.8 which gave me the nice round bokeh.

Santa in the garden

Some times unfocused lights make a great photo

Deer in the garden

Again I couldn’t choose between the two photos, this time i changed the focus to the second deer.

A full wide of the garden

A lonely deer?

Priority Modes

You know those letters you have on your scene selection dial? Do you know what they do or do you just ignore it like I used to? Well there’s 4 letters, on Nikon they’re M, A, S, P and Cannon its M, Av, Tv, P. Because I use a nikon I’ll use MASP for the explaination. So M is manual, where you set everything such as your aperture, shutter speed and ISO. S is shutter priority which means you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture for you, useful for things like cars at night (just watch your ISO isn’t to high). A is aperture priority where upon you set the aperture or f stop, this is commonly used to set the depth of field and with HDR. The final one is P which is where the camera selects a balance between your shutter speed and your aperture, on the D90 you can change the values that it sets, kind of like a more advanced auto. Go and have a play with all the different settings and experiment.

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Last Night was the 2009 QACI Semi formal, here are the results. Click here for the hi-fi version post (Bigger Images, Slower to load)
It was my first time doing a social event, but overall I think it came out quite well. Everyone had a great night so what more could you ask for?

Hi-res prints & images are avalible upon request.

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