Not so non-trivial and laborious, Boris. Here's my layer stack, from the bottom:
copy of the original with 30px gaussian blur; curves adjustment to brighten that; the original, blending mode set to Soft Light; copy of the original High-Pass'ed at 1px, blending mode set to overlay. I think the result works very well. I might even make a Ps action out of it. :-) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2254722/PDML/BMW_7676-Edit-flattened.jpg On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Bulent, I am very much no expert in photoshop. And since I fully switched to > LightRoom when 1.0 came out, I did not follow as far as its improvements > went. So I don't know. But it seems to me that to reproduce such an effect > in post from regular sharp image will be a very non-trivial and laborious > task. > > Meanwhile I'm enjoying my soft lens :-). > > > On 1/26/2014 8:44 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote: >> >> Lovely effect from a custom made lens. >> >> Compared to a usual lens, it seems to save a lot of post processing >> time to reach a similar result. >> >> Bulent >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> http://patoloji.gen.tr >> http://celasun.wordpress.com/ >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ >> http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun >> >> >> 2014-01-25 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Have a look here: >>> >>> http://pentax-ways.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/2014-03-grocery-store.html >>> >>> This shot was made with my freshly acquired soft lens. It is one of a >>> kind >>> lens that I ordered from a guy who makes all kinds of photography related >>> works including some very interesting lenses. >>> >>> This one is Chevalier landscape lens and it was made to my custom order >>> in a >>> barrel with native Leica mount, though no rangefinder coupling. The focal >>> length is 38 mm. >>> >>> I am very happy about the shots I've been getting from it. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/borispdml/12122257096/ and >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/borispdml/12121723156/ are two examples. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> Boris >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
