For the photo on the left, i used the technique of a zoom streak by using a long shutter speed on the bulb setting of the camera. I started by zooming all the way into the tree and held the button down while I zoomed out letting go of the button when it was all the way zoomed out. This enables you to draw with the light and the ornaments on the tree have a ghostly effect around the tree...
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i decided to create some images using bokeh and i achieved this by using the lights on the christmas tree. I focused on different christmas ornaments so that the background is slightly blurred and the bokeh effect occurs around the object, creating circles of light. I also attempted to make the bokeh into different shapes by using coloured fairy lights and a shape template in which I put on the lens of the camera in order to make the bokeh bubbles be in the shape of the template (in this I used a heart template). I also tried to get bigger bokeh bubbles by moving further out away from the lights and I created smaller bubbles by standing closer to the tree.