This year my wife found some example pictures on Pinterest that she liked involving a baby surrounded by a strand of Christmas lights and she wanted pictures of our kid like that. My first couple of test shots were fairly successful but the biggest problem was there was nothing behind the kid other than a blank wall. We decided to go ahead and decorate the Christmas tree to give the picture some depth. In all the shots, the tree is setup about 10 feet behind our subject which was a good distance for light bokeh. I'm about twelve feet in front of my son and the lights laying on a blanket. I am using my 85mm prime with the aperture at 1.8f. The ISO is 350 and the shutter speed varied between 1/50 to 1/80 of second. I didn't use a tripod because my vantage point was lower than my tripod could go and it was helpful to be able to auto-focus on the fly. Thankfully the light from the strand was bright enough for my camera to focus. We picked out 6 photos as our finalists for our family Christmas card and these 5 in this post are the runners up. I'll be posting the final image closer to Christmas.
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