[ireallydontlikepink] A Photo whenever possible :)
- Thread starter ireallydontlikepink
- Start date
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
ziploc
New Member
2nd June 10': If only i had constantly visited her...
The "blurness" of this pic does not look natural, was it PPed? Normally if the blurness is caused by shallow DOF, the plane in focus should be parallel to the camera's film/sensor plane. In this pic I noticed that the old lady's shoulder is in focus while her back is not, and her back is in the same focal plane with her head.
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
The "blurness" of this pic does not look natural, was it PPed? Normally if the blurness is caused by shallow DOF, the plane in focus should be parallel to the camera's film/sensor plane. In this pic I noticed that the old lady's shoulder is in focus while her back is not, and her back is in the same focal plane with her head.
Hi Ziploc - Thanks for your feedback. Yup intentionally PP with Picnik and the % blur is rather high coz the pic itself is not very clear ... And Picnik only allow circle spot to be selected to be clear and anything outside is blur ... thats why with sharp eyes really can see very clearly its PP. ...
can you explain the sentence again - highlighted in different color?
Thanks
ziploc
New Member
Sure no problem. Usually with DOF, the area that is considered in focus is a certain range of distance from the camera and it is dependent on the lens focal length, set aperture, and subject distance. So for example, assuming I'm using a D90 with a 105mm lens, with aperture set at f/4 and subject distance is 10m, the DOF is from 9.8m-10.3m (you can calculate the DOF with DOFmaster here). This distance is measured wrt the camera's film (or sensor) plane. So imagine there are 2 pieces of glass sheets, one at 9.8m and the other at 10.3m, both placed parallel to your camera's film plane. Whatever objects that are within these 2 sheets of glass should be in focus. Those objects outside will get more and more blur as they get further and further away from the glass sheets (please see the illustration at the DOFmaster site given above).
In the pic mentioned above, I did not find this characteristic (of everything in focus within the 2 imaginery glass sheets). That is why I can immediately tell it is most probably PPed in.
To do it properly, if you have photoshop, is to create a blur layer and then expose the underlying (original) layer in the plane that the objects that are supposed to be in focus. For more realistic PP, you'll need to create multiple layers with different blurness and expose them accordingly.
Hope I didn't confuse you further. :sweat:
In the pic mentioned above, I did not find this characteristic (of everything in focus within the 2 imaginery glass sheets). That is why I can immediately tell it is most probably PPed in.
To do it properly, if you have photoshop, is to create a blur layer and then expose the underlying (original) layer in the plane that the objects that are supposed to be in focus. For more realistic PP, you'll need to create multiple layers with different blurness and expose them accordingly.
Hope I didn't confuse you further. :sweat:
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
Ok here is an illustration of what I meant...
Btw what font were you using? It's nice.
Its called - Marcelle Script.
Hey hey, i figured out liao.
OMG! ALL along i thought DOF is background blur ONLY subject is clear ...
i did not know there is gradient in the blur-ness too.
Best of all i read the link before last time as well but did not figure out.
And thus i only use picnik to create the blurness 'DOF'.
too bad my netbook unable to support PS .. sighz .
will upgrade next yr.
woah , thanks suddenly feel so enlightened.
ziploc
New Member
Oh btw, you can also employ selective coloring to isolate your subject. It is a lot easier than trying to create the artificial DOF.
Here is an example.
Here is an example.
Last edited:
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
Hi Ziploc - Morning :>
Thanks for your tips.
But i cannot use Photoshop ..
Is there any other SW i can do this?
Like GIMP? But i also not sure if it can be supported on my MSI Wind netbook
ziploc
New Member
Ok I did a search after posting the above, and found this for you:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
And here are more GIMP tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
Cheers.
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
And here are more GIMP tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
Cheers.
Last edited:
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
Ok I did a search after posting the above, and found this for you:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
And here are more GIMP tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
Cheers.
OMG! You are really kind.
Thank you very much.
I shall stress my netbook tonight by installing GIMP!
Hope everything turns out fine ...
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
Yapster
Senior Member
Hor... age revealed. ;p
Anyway, noticed and have an impression of your APAD cos of your signature. The last line is added in one right?
Last edited:
ziploc
New Member
Wah you very bad. I saw and I kept quiet but you... :bsmilie:
Yapster
Senior Member
Haha, paiseh. :sweat:
Cos of the selective colouring, my eyes drawn to the center straight away. :bsmilie:
ireallydontlikepink
New Member
o
Aiya ..i noticed tat liao ..lazy to change.
Age is nothing lah .. .... :cry:
i dun understand about the last line thing in your question.
Similar threads
