> Have him take a look at Marker Tucker's work. It'll keep him up at night > questioning the value of shallow attempts.... > > http://www.marktucker.com Tucker has played with Photoshop (or probably Kai's power tools) a lot, he probably uses selective blur a lot. Most of the blur does not seem to be due to shallow DOF at the time of capture. anyway, for some of his images it works, for some other it looks childish. achal