[Leica] IMG Sumo!

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

I like the brighter one immensely.   Bokeh can be useful if you have
interesting shapes and related colors in the background.

Here your background contains elements that relate to the subject.
Astonishment, joy, excitement, ooooh!  You don't want to lose that!  You
have just enough a veil of oof separation for me.

I Love it.



On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> This weekend I visited Fukuoka to attend the Sumo finales.  I wanted the
> closest seat I could get, so stumped up for the 540 dollar ticket.  
> However,
> my seat was in the furthest row (the 8th row) of the pricey rows.  Because 
> I
> wasn't as close as I wanted to be, my 200mm wide open at f/2.8 didn't throw
> the crowd out of focus as much as I wanted.
>
> I thought later I would try to selectively blur the background, as I
> remember Tina did for a couple of her photos.  However, I don't know how to
> do that, and I think I wouldn't be so proficient in that Photoshop
> technique.  So I decided to stay in Lightroom and use the brush tool to
> darken the crowd instead of blurring.
>
> So, I'd like anyone's opinion on how this treatment looks compared to the
> original.  Also, if anyone thinks using Photoshop's blur tool would help,
> please give me some pointers as to how to apply it.  Would I just choose 
> the
> gaussian blur and wave the brush around the areas I want blurring?
>
> I know the real solution would to have been to get closer to the action.
> Next year I will book my tickets well in advance and request a front row
> seat.
>
> Here's the crowd-darkened version:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/27d7xlh
>
> And here's the original:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2c4ougb
>
> All the best,
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
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