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Challenge: People II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Location: Melbourne Australia
Date: Apr 17, 2005
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Snapshot, Candid
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2005

Taken outdoors. I wanted to make the middle lady the focus. I did this by bluring the area around her. Applied sepia.

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Place: 215 out of 251
Avg (all users): 4.8369
Avg (commenters): 4.5882
Avg (participants): 4.6303
Avg (non-participants): 5.0526
Views since voting: 695
Views during voting: 311
Votes: 233
Comments: 17
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04/24/2005 10:27:42 PM
effective DOF
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04/24/2005 07:36:05 PM
The soft focus parts (Gaussian blur?) seem unnatural. It just doesn't feel right. And the border is distracting.
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04/24/2005 12:36:27 PM
i think the blur is a poor effect in this image
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04/24/2005 04:22:40 AM
this one pic where DOF works negatively.
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04/24/2005 03:23:23 AM
This photo, I think, would be so much lovelier if the background and other ladies were not blurred out. I like the choice of sepia tint, and I the shady/sunny spots really give this a nice, warm, fuzzy feel.
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04/23/2005 02:50:32 PM
Blurring seems un-natural and drags my eyes to the blurred section, instead of the subject. 3
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04/22/2005 04:14:20 PM
great selective focus 6
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04/22/2005 09:44:27 AM
Not very effective blurr effect for my opinon. This should have been done much more carefully or simply use some other setup. Actually I think this could have been nice image without the blurr.
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04/21/2005 03:04:24 PM
I think this would have been better if you hadn't artificially blurred areas of the shot.
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04/19/2005 01:24:33 PM
Photoshop to make more out of a quick snapshot usually doesn't work. I know that you probably didn't plan this shot, and pose them, or you would have removed the walker, the purses and had them more posed. The sepia treament as well as the blur do little to add to the shot.
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04/19/2005 08:56:57 AM
The blurring doesn't work for me. I think making the center woman stand out with brightness was sufficient.
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04/18/2005 12:32:32 PM
Wonderful shot of 'life'. I really love the center focus -Vignette- look. Nice entry.
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04/18/2005 11:43:23 AM
I think that this would have been more effective with aperature blur rather than PS blur
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04/18/2005 11:33:44 AM
Obvious photoshop blur to separate the subjects... seems unnatural.
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04/18/2005 09:03:39 AM
Too bad you blurred the companions...would have liked to see them all 3 in focus...
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04/18/2005 06:44:38 AM
The blurring of everything else in shot, including some of the subject's own hair, looks very unnatural and makes the subject look like she was pasted into the photo in some places. I think a more natural treatment would have suited this lovely photo much better.
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04/18/2005 12:17:23 AM
The DOF in this looks a bit processed. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I think the blurry woman (especially the one in front) takes away from the strength oft the image. The woman in behind looks believably blurred, but the woman in the front does not. 6
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