Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] A few new ones-
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Mon May 2 03:25:59 2005
References: <f2f825f20505011015654fd758@mail.gmail.com> <BE9B09E3.244F%philippe.orlent@pandora.be>

>Looks like you blur a lot, though. Maybe
>the effect will get even better if you first put your main subjects in a
>different layer on top of the background, blur the background and in here
>paint the halo effect that you have now away. This way you'll get closer to
>real lens blur IMO.
>Philippe

This might be a very little better, but even then the blurred shape of the 
main subject will appear outside the subject, too. I'm anyway not a big 
friend of artificial bokehing. What about using a fast lens wide open 
instead of spending a lot of time in photoshop to fake a bokeh?
Didier 

Replies: Reply from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] A few new ones-)
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