[Leica] Bokeh Opinion Please

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

I like the shot, but the effect isn't quite there yet.

I think the thing that bothers me about it is that it's so abrupt.  The 
grass stays about f8 sharp for what looks like about six, eight feet behind 
him, and then suddenly it goes completely blurred in what looks like a 
couple of feet on the ground... there's very little falloff.  It's like 
looking at a forced perspective shot of a scale model; all of the individual 
elements within the shot are reasonable, but when you layer them together, 
the overall effect is just off.

R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley"
> <images at comporium.net>
> > To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 4:35 PM
> > Subject: [Leica] Bokeh Opinion Please
> >
> >
> >> LUG:
> >>
> >> I am looking at Alien Skin's Bokeh (I like their
> other programs).
> >> What do you think of the before and after:
> >>
> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/128810960
> >>
> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/128810981