Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-11 Thread P. J. Alling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To answer the question - use a lens that produces good bokeh? Norm This from a guy who puts gravy on everything. Dave Mark! -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and sho

RE: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Shel Belinkoff
There are numerous factors that effect the bokeh, including the type of background, the distance between you and the subject and the distance between the background and the subject, aperture, shape of diaphragm blades, number of blades, as well as the design of the lens. The size of the image or p

Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Out of focus rendering is a fundamental property of a particular lens... It's quite difficult to change a harsh rendering to a pleasing one. Mixtures of different kinds of blurring and filtering sometimes can help, but depending upon the particular image, they all fall apart ultimately. K

Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread pnstenquist
Good bokeh isn't a sure thing, even with the best lenses. Sometimes background elements just don't blend well, even when the lens performance is optimal. I've used almost a variety of tools to repair bokeh: cloning, selective blurring, painting with semi-transparent layers, and gaussian blur. Ga

Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Gonz
I've tried some smoothing techniques in PS to achieve a more pleasant background. Usually you have to mask out the main subject and copy the resultant image in several layers, making each layer have a different level of blur. Then you control the opacity to achieve the look you want. Its alo

RE: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Øsleby
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10. mai 2006 16:13 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common > Redshank... > > To answer the question - use a lens that produces good bokeh? > Norm > > From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAI

Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread brooksdj
> To answer the question - use a lens that produces good bokeh? > Norm This from a guy who puts gravy on everything. Dave

Re: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Norman Baugher
To answer the question - use a lens that produces good bokeh? Norm From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gonz is onto something when he points at the harsh bokeh. So now I wonder: Is there anything I can do to make it less harsh in Phootoshop (Elements 3)? Gaussian Blur is one obvious answer.

RE: How to create pleasant bokeh? (Was)RE: PESO: Common Redshank...

2006-05-10 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Tim congratulations on your progresses and enablement's first :-) What helps is excluding the background from any sharpening by selecting only the bird for that step. greetings Markus >>-Original Message- >>From: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:24