Nice effect, Alan. Could you describe the technique a little more?
Nice effect, Alan. Could you describe the technique a little more?
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
First of all, after this image was taken I noticed a lot of front focus with the "autofocus fine tuning" setting I was using with this lens on the D300. So, the point of auto focus is just ahead of the back edge of the DOF envelope. So, completely by mistake, I think I've found a way to make the DOF look like a bigger format (as long as there isn't anything in the foreground).Originally Posted by Peter J. De Smidt
After some de-noise, dodging/burning/cropping I followed this tutorial:
http://www.ethiriel.com/wordpress/archives/1189 Which is nice since it doesn't rely on Gaussian blur. I also applied a mask to the soft layer and painted some sharpness back into her eyes.
After flattening, I also experimented with luminosity masking with maximum feathering and Gaussian to spread the highlights a little on a new copy layer. After fading that new layer and playing with layer modes (ending up in "lighten" I think) though I'm not sure it even contributed to the final effect much because I reduced the opacity so much.
Conversion is with Topaz Labs B&W plug in, one of the "platinum" pre-sets with a simulation of Ilford Pan F grain added.
Hope that helps!
PS: The lighting is Tungsten Fresnel spotlights.
Hi Alan,
That does help. Thanks!
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Could you post the straight image before manipulation?Playing with soft focus in Photoshop again. This time with inverted "apply image" copy layer set to "soft light" D300, Sigma 30 1.4 wide open 1600 ASA, ~40% crop Topaz B&W conversion
Thanks.
You bet. Here is the original converted to jpeg from NEF and a crop of same:
By the way, the first thing I generally do is a frequency seperation via one of the actions found here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/439098http://, but I honestly don't remember which one I downloaded for use. Frequency separation is an amazing tool I use but don't completely understand.
The great thing, of course is that we can use anything post processing has to offer on scanned negatives as well as digital captures.
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