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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 815962" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>So, I have this other image that I have also tinkered with as part of such compositions. If I had known, back when I took this one in 2016, that I might ever want to try to use it this way, I'd have taken some shots focused a bit farther back. This one, was focused on the dandelion closest to the camera, so everything farther back is increasingly out of focus, and in order to stick any other subject in here, I have to blur it slightly, or else it just looks too fake, being sharp like the foreground dandelion when it is clearly meant to otherwise look like it is farther back.</p><p></p><p> This was also taken with my Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8, probably wide open.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401065[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> Here's that same image of [USER=32150]@Seanette[/USER] stuck into this scene. I blurred her slightly so that she would more plausibly loo like she's somewhere behind the main dandelion, rather than implausibly in the same plane as it. The added dandelion is to cover part of her head that I had to crudely reconstruct, because it was obscured by the couch on which she was laying when I took the picture of her. It's actually the same dandelion as the main foreground one, flipped, shrunk, and slightly blurred.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401066[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> I suppose I should probably show the original shot of [USER=32150]@Seanette[/USER], from which I clipped her to put her in these composites…</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401067[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 815962, member: 16749"] So, I have this other image that I have also tinkered with as part of such compositions. If I had known, back when I took this one in 2016, that I might ever want to try to use it this way, I'd have taken some shots focused a bit farther back. This one, was focused on the dandelion closest to the camera, so everything farther back is increasingly out of focus, and in order to stick any other subject in here, I have to blur it slightly, or else it just looks too fake, being sharp like the foreground dandelion when it is clearly meant to otherwise look like it is farther back. This was also taken with my Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8, probably wide open. [ATTACH type="full" width="1000px" alt="17228522085_95a6388b2c_k.jpg"]401065[/ATTACH] Here's that same image of [USER=32150]@Seanette[/USER] stuck into this scene. I blurred her slightly so that she would more plausibly loo like she's somewhere behind the main dandelion, rather than implausibly in the same plane as it. The added dandelion is to cover part of her head that I had to crudely reconstruct, because it was obscured by the couch on which she was laying when I took the picture of her. It's actually the same dandelion as the main foreground one, flipped, shrunk, and slightly blurred. [ATTACH type="full" width="1000px" alt="9245_17228522085_67db8bdab8_o_Fantasy_3008x2000.jpg"]401066[/ATTACH] I suppose I should probably show the original shot of [USER=32150]@Seanette[/USER], from which I clipped her to put her in these composites… [ATTACH type="full"]401067[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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