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Old 04-25-2009   #1 (permalink)
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Playing around with a new tool...it's called Bokeh by AlienSkin.

These were shot with my D300 and 70-200mm last Ren Season, wide open at 2.8. Even at 2.8 and at the longer focal lengths the background is evident and still quite distracting....so i used some Bokeh magic on them and turned out this:





and just so you get an idea...this is the before shot of the second pic.



Of course, it's not perfect...but it makes an excellent effort to create creamy backgrounds.


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Definitely did an effective job on the background.Nice,sharp images,too.
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Nice, but we might appreciate the effect better if we could see the before as well as the after shots.
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Nice, but we might appreciate the effect better if we could see the before as well as the after shots.
The last shot is the Before of the second shot....
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I like these, and thanks for posting the before and after I have many photos from Jousts that the crowd in the the back messes up the look, looks like you solved that problem.

I'm curious which Ren is this one?

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That's a pretty neat and handy tool, Odz. Are there a lot of steps involved?
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Nice! Good work with your selections here. It looks like this plugin has some possibilities eh?
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I like these, and thanks for posting the before and after I have many photos from Jousts that the crowd in the the back messes up the look, looks like you solved that problem.

I'm curious which Ren is this one?

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That's a pretty neat and handy tool, Odz. Are there a lot of steps involved?

I just followed the short tutorial video on the AlienSkin website. I learned alot about making good selections too...stuff I didn't know before. Most fo the time is consumed doing a good selection...maybe 3-5 minutes in this case.


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