Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 5 Nov 00, at 15:51, Johnny Deadman wrote: > on 5/11/00 9:16 am, Ernest Nitka at enitka@twcny.rr.com wrote: > > > 1] Saw a photo of a room setup ( in the mag. DWELL) where there appeared > > to be two separate planes of focus > > one in the foreground and one in the background with intervening > > space in a nice BOKEH. How is this done- > > the only way I could figure how to do this is to start with a lens with > > a hugh depth of field and then do the vasolene thing for those areas > > that are supposed to be out of focus. But I suspect there is a more > > elegant solution - anyone know how it was done? > > In photoshop it's DEAD easy. > > Start with a nice sharp image. > > Select the areas you want to be sharp > > Feather your selection to taste > > Invert it > > Apply Gaussian Blur to taste > > Bingo! With the image described, it would take two images with different focussing, and a feathered cut and paste. Some of the bokeh effects can't be duplicated with gaussian blur - hard edged out of focus lights come to mind.