Random Ideas

Now, I don't have the money for lenses with good bokeh – especially since I don't use them, so I started experimenting with other cheaper ways to simulate the effect – like generating the effect in Photoshop – no, not with Gaussian blur or lens blur. Something a little more convincing.

The starting point.

(Don't worry about the white line in the original, that's part of my selection work going a little awry.)

After a little selecting work, some third party filters, and the result is this:

The end result!

If you think it looks fake – look carefully at the table – and compared the two photos. You'll realise that only a very specific portion (or distance) from the Coke can has been blurred!

Abusing out-of-focus as an effect on flowers. Hehehe.

Taken with a Nikon D90, 18-200 VR at 34mm, f/4.2, 1/40 sec shutter at ISO 200.

I realised early on it was extremely difficult to get a photo that would give me an accurate idea as to how a Cubesmith tile sticker's texture was like.

And so now I present to you – a crop from a high resolution photo which gives pretty good detail on what the texture is like on the tile. (Hint, look at the red tile.)

Click on the photo and get a much better look.

I know the photo isn't the best, but it's painfully difficult to capture the texture of the smooth tiles since they look a little bit like noise too.