Ysarex
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Took this photo yesterday and posted it in a different thread. This is for reference:
Cactus flowers are a PITA because they bloom right on the cactus and if you stop down enough to hold the flower in DOF (f/5.6 in this shot -- 1 inch sensor) then you get a fairly well in focus background including cactus spikes etc. In the above photo I blurred the background a little. It really looked like this:
And although my botanist wife approves of the surrounding detail it's distracting to say the least.
Faking OOF background is tricky. This morning with my coffee I took a stab at it with this photo and managed to pull off this:
Joe
Cactus flowers are a PITA because they bloom right on the cactus and if you stop down enough to hold the flower in DOF (f/5.6 in this shot -- 1 inch sensor) then you get a fairly well in focus background including cactus spikes etc. In the above photo I blurred the background a little. It really looked like this:
And although my botanist wife approves of the surrounding detail it's distracting to say the least.
Faking OOF background is tricky. This morning with my coffee I took a stab at it with this photo and managed to pull off this:
Joe
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