Lawrence, If you look at Mark Tucker's b/w photo of a "guy, car and dog" under "Lifestyles", you would see that out of focused shoulders and arms are not logical (unless he is leaning back a lot to keep his face in focus) if DOF is from his face to the Dog. Again, if you look at a color photo of "elderly couple hugging" (under Lifestyles), you would see that mountains in the backgrounds have uneven focus unexplainable by "in camera" DOF. Probably, even tilt-shit would not explain it. I am not saying that PS is bad, I was just commenting on the probable technique. thanks, Achal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Smith" <lsmith@lwsphoto.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Re: PF Galleries on 11/22/03 > On 11/27/03 12:14 PM, "achal pashine" <achal@stanford.edu> wrote: > > > 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 > > Actually a lot of it is not photoshop. He shoots lot's of fast glass (50mm > f1.0, 85 f1.2, 135mm f2) wide open and tilt shift (24, 45, 90) lenses to > throw areas out of focus. Yeah he does some layering and some blurring but > much of it is 'in camera'. His plunger cam produces very interesting images > that you'd think were PS but they aren't. > > Lawrence > > ---------------------------------- > Lawrence W. Smith Photography > http://www.lwsphoto.com > lsmith@lwsphoto.com > ---------------------------------- >
