Re: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Looking at the thumbnails in the vicinity.. I love the yellow bike and like the clouds.. I'm afraid I'n not so crazy about the gauzy attempt - it kinda looks like what it is.. photoshop. I've never been pleased with my attempts at it either... ann On 7/21/2011 12:45, Steven Desjardins wrote:

re: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread John Sessoms
From: Steven Desjardins I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like

Re: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy

Re: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread Steven Desjardins
I'll try that. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body.  I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy.  It was

Re: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread Bob Sullivan
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try that. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body.  I like the

RE: Peso: Garden of Blur

2011-07-21 Thread Jeffery Johnson
The blurring looks fine to me... I was once asked if I had blurred one of my backgrounds. I told them no for one I didn't know how to do that and 2nd my lens did such a good job I didn't need to blur it. Then again luckily the background wasn't busy.