( f/2.8 200mm 1/60 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )
Theme is bokeh. You might be asking yourself "What is bokeh?" Well, it is a word derived from a Japanese word (boke) and is a photographic term referring to the appearance of the out-of-focus areas. This is produced by adjusting the lens to the highest aperture, in this case f/2.8 which results in a very shallow depth of field. The background circles are actually Christmas lights that I hung on my Translum background and put the (fake) rose in front of it about 10 feet. Then the camera was about 8 or so feet from the rose. I pointed two flashes at the rose. One from below with a snoot attached and the other from above with a grid spot. No post processing adjustments were made to this image.
