Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-27 Thread Bruce Walker
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

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread Bulent Celasun
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/

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread knarf
I thought I replied to this yesterday but it appears I was mistaken. I like it. A lot. Proves that sharpness isn't everything. Beautifully composed and rendered. Cheers frank Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Have a look here:

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread Eactivist
That's really soft. Interesting, good composition, but not really sure I like it. Marnie aka Doe :-) Take with a grain of salt. In a message dated 1/25/2014 10:13:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, bori...@gmail.com writes: Hi! Have a look here:

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
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

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks, Frank. You're being very kind. The great thing here is that as far as rendering goes, 99% was done in run-time and not in post. On 1/26/2014 9:04 PM, knarf wrote: I thought I replied to this yesterday but it appears I was mistaken. I like it. A lot. Proves that sharpness isn't

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks, Marnie. On 1/27/2014 1:21 AM, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: That's really soft. Interesting, good composition, but not really sure I like it. Marnie aka Doe :-) Take with a grain of salt. In a message dated 1/25/2014 10:13:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, bori...@gmail.com writes: Hi!

Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-25 Thread Boris Liberman
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

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-25 Thread Bruce Walker
Beautiful, Boris. Other than the bright red product placement, this could be a postcard or Christmas card. I really like it! That lens is rather too short for portraits but would produce very interesting results. On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi!

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-25 Thread Stanley Halpin
Interesting effect. All nice, but I think the one with the young lady could be very very nice if only the person to her right was not there to create a bit of clutter. Sell the grocery store shot to the local Coke distributor… stan On Jan 25, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-25 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks, Bruce. You see, at 38mm of focal length is not portrait lens per se. However given the crop it turns to something like 58mm as far as angle of view goes and that's not bad. I made some group portraits of my girls and I quite liked the result. I used to have F 85/2.8 soft which was

Re: Boris PESO #03 - Grocery store and a new lens

2014-01-25 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks, Stan. I never think of my photography as of source of profit. May be I could make a big print and give it to the grocery shop owners :-). I will be able to take you just there as it sits in rather special location as far as tourist attractions in Tel Aviv go. You will judge for