Boris,
I agree with others, that Galia did it better! I hope you don't mind that conclusion. :-) I think for both shots (but more so for yours), - it the brightness of the background (OOF flowers) that plays the [distracting] role. With your shot, it might be hard to change anything (because of lack of the spatial between the foreground and the background), but it might be done using a mask in Photoshop with Galia's shot. In that shot, I would try to darken the background slightly. This would make the front, in focus, flowers to "stand out" more. Also, I'd play with the contrast and sharpness, - that may or may not be able to help to achieve that. Actually, "presence" in Lightroom may provide a good handle on that (for both shots). Igor On 2/19/2011 11:27 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi! > > The spring has come. Today we had first really warm day (like in +27C) > and so we went for a walk and we took pictures /grin/... > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2011/02/peso-2011-04-almonds-are-blooming.html > > > > Have your brutal and honest say. > > Boris > > P.S. Specifically, the shot that I made - I wonder if the OOF > rendering is pleasant. I did not do anything except tonal manipulation > and so I wonder if my choice of aperture/focal length was right. > > P.P.S. I think Galia did great. Again. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
