Chickasha, Festival of lights

We went to Chickasha festival of lights yesterday. It was beautiful. They have pretty decent number of lights in the festival. This is not my first time, I have been there before back in 2008. This time it was different. This time my primary intention was was to take some photographs. They have a large collection of light and I wanted to take picture of them. I got some but most of them are crap. However I leaned some good lessons to take photographs of this kind of lighting show.

Some pictures are nice if lights are not in focus. Putting lights out of focus makes a outline of bokeh and that is pretty spectacular. Taking picture of lights in focus is pretty boring. Out of focus light is rather dramatic and visually aesthetic. 

Photographs are two dimensional, of course they are. Most importantly when I was taking photographs of lights, the entire field became two dimensional lighting field. What I saw was no way comparable to what I got in my shot. Well, this is always true for photography but it became even more important for photography of lights. Background lights are as prominent as foreground lights or to be more specific there is nothing called background light. 

Here is what I have taken from yesterday's photographic venture,

Planning!

I just realized I am not good as planning. Planning for life! So far I am pretty much without any plan. When I look back I feel there is something missing and that missing part is probably proper planning. So far, I behave pretty much as an opportunistic! without any plan at all. USA a super fine tuned country and I kind of fall behind because of my lack of planning. I got to be well tuned in terms of planning. 

I used to think I am good at it but all of sudden I realized I am not. I could have done better if I had a better plan. I have not idea how to improve it but I got to do it anyway! I need to find a place where I wanna be and then how to be it! Make some plan!