By PRM Photography

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 85 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

This was shot at the Neon Boneyard (Neon Museum) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Most of my shots from this interesting museum were fairly wide angle shots of the different signs but I did get some close-ups as well. I had this shot all planned out when I was looking at it and I knew that I wanted to keep the focus of the bulb further back while blurring the foreground. I did this by setting the camera to Av mode, selecting the largest aperture my lens allows, and manually selecting the focus point. I didn’t get the extreme depth of field a f/1.8 or f/1.4 prime lens would have given me but I am still happy with how it came out and it’s an example of getting what I was seeing in my mind to turn out almost exactly how I had imagined it.

Shot in RAW and edited in ACR and Photoshop CS4. I adjusted levels and boosted saturation and contrast. I also turned the clarity slider up quite a bit in ACR.

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