I'd like to try to get some catchy night city portraits with city lights in background as bokeh. I think this brings nice attention to your subject you are photographing. If I need to use a flash, I'd use it on rear sync, correct?
Actually if you have an tips for doing this, I would appreciate you sharing them.
Well, yes to the above, but that's a bokeh and composition issue. The question was about flash.
I'm not sure whether it needs to be front or rear curtain, or whether that even matters. You do want flash, and better to be off camera. If you're not trying to capture movement/blur, I don't know that it matters.
But there are others here with more experience than me, so hopefully they'll chime in.
If nothing is moving, front-curtain or rear-curtain makes no difference. If something is moving and you want the light trail to appear behind it, use rear-curtain. For a light trail in front, use front-curtain. What you WILL need to do is use your slow-sync setting ... to enable a shutter speed slow enough to capture background lighting at night.
Geospiri wrote: Ok I think you mare after an effect beside the bokeh for your background.. if so then try the old Bokeh 2 or the new Exposure by Alian Skin you may need to mask the main subject then apply bokeh using what ever shape preset to change the shape of flare and lights, don't have a portrait but this might be what you are looking at ...
The original shot is interesting. I don't care for that edit at all. It does not come across as effective, for me. If there were an actual line of focus (such as you would get in reality) it might come across better.
garyrhook wrote: The original shot is interesting. I don't care for that edit at all. It does not come across as effective, for me. If there were an actual line of focus (such as you would get in reality) it might come across better.
sorry the post has been misunderstood... the happy snap was just used as an example to show light staring ad a background effect and I just had this snap close:)
No, we get that. Your original response was intended to demonstrate the software (as far as I can tell). I, personally, am not sure that it was an effective or successful demonstration.
Liking the original photograph was intended as a compliment.
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is there any way to control the size of the bokeh dots? 
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