Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Several OT Topics - Self publishing and planes of focus
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:51:51 -0500

on 5/11/00 9:16 am, Ernest Nitka at enitka@twcny.rr.com wrote:

> 1] Saw a photo of a room setup ( in the mag. DWELL) where there appeared
> to be two separate planes of focus
> one in the foreground and one in the background with intervening
> space in a nice BOKEH.  How is this done-
> the only way I could figure how to do this is to start with a lens with
> a hugh depth of field and then do the vasolene thing for those areas
> that are supposed to be out of focus.  But I suspect there is a more
> elegant solution - anyone know how it was done?

In photoshop it's DEAD easy.

Start with a nice sharp image.

Select the areas you want to be sharp

Feather your selection to taste

Invert it

Apply Gaussian Blur to taste

Bingo!

- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com