![]() But of course, if there’s no one around, this can be done by yourself. With him pressing the shutter, I had more time and flexibility to place my hands in the right pose. That’s why I decided not to use a remote control or the self-timer. With a little bit of daylight still available, plus the light from the room and the aperture fully-opened, there was enough light to ensure a stable, sharp picture. I wanted it to be well-discernible.Ĭanon EOS 60D, 50mm lens, ISO 100, 1/250 sec. I didn’t want the hands to remain just a silhouette, because I loved the knitted pattern of the gloves with its golden thread elements. I was standing outdoors, but I purposefully positioned myself in such a way that the light from the room was entering through an open window and throwing a bit of a warm glow on the gloves. I waited for the early dusk, prepared the same lens, and then set the camera on a tripod. Now that I had the shot of my perfect background, I needed to shoot the rest separately. I wanted to keep it as the background of the picture. (I was considering the Canon 100mm f 2.8 macro then.) Instead, when I saw the bokeh the f 1.4 lens has produced, I absolutely fell in love with it. ![]() I took into consideration that I might need to go back to the same spot another time, equipped with another lens. It was also a new purchase of mine, and I simply wanted to try it out at the time. at f1.4, handheld, manually focused.Ī few words about the lens that I was using: I chose it for its brightness and great bokeh properties. They met my idea of filling the whole background with a nice dense, uni-color bokeh, so I decided to take some shots of just the illuminations, and see if they could somehow come in handy later.Ĭanon EOS 60D, 50mm lens, ISO 160, 1/80 sec. And yet, I understood those very illuminations would create a perfect background for my picture as they were literally forming a wonderful, compact curtain of lights. The lights were too high for the hands to look natural and well-proportioned. I wasn’t altogether satisfied with the effect. I wanted see if I could capture what I wanted. In fact, I found what I was looking for in a beautifully-decorated Old Square of my hometown:Įquipped with the Canon 50mm (which renders 80mm on my camera) f1.4 lens, I asked a friend-or rather, her hands-to pose for me so that I could take some sample shots. I needed to find a spot with lots of Christmas illuminations, which wasn’t really hard in the pre-festive period. I saw those gloves in a store window while doing some Christmas shopping, and I thought, “Eureka!” At this point, I decided to take the picture outdoors. Originally, I was planning to take it at home with the background of Christmas illuminations and without the gloves. First, the idea grew in my mind, but when I was ready to realize it, I understood I would need the help of some “tricks” to make the picture look exactly the way I imagined. The Concept for “When You Wish Upon a Star”Ĭreating this photo wasn’t just a one-step process. Pumpkin Days by Magdalena Ginalska on 500px Moreover, this is where a camera lens can surpass the human eye and take us to an enchanted world, which we can’t see otherwise. In our reality, which is often grey and dreary, we all need something that will make us marvel like a kid upon seeing an amazing thing for the first time. So, my passion was born quite some time before I actually took my first picture.īokeh images have some ethereal beauty and magic in them. I framed and hung them on the walls of my room. ![]() Then I started to buy and collect postcards featuring the works of famous photographers, such as Avedon, Horowitz, Lindbergh-I loved fashion photography at the time. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always been strangely attracted by beautifully-photographed images, which I was passionately cutting out from magazines. However, my interest in photography started earlier than that. I got into photography around 20 years ago, when I received my first camera-an old film SLR Zenit 11, with a Helios lens attached to it. When You Wish Upon a Star by Magdalena Ginalska on 500px ![]()
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