I took one of the pictures from my vacation and tried to get the effect right. What do you think?
EDIT: Tried another one that doesn't have much of a size reference around it to see what it looks like.
I took one of the pictures from my vacation and tried to get the effect right. What do you think?
EDIT: Tried another one that doesn't have much of a size reference around it to see what it looks like.
Last edited by RPMiller; 03-07-2009 at 10:10 AM.
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Not bad.
I think you used the "linear gradient to blend a blurred copy" method?
The thing that causes it to look a bit wonky is that the people are obviously much further behind the urns, yet both are in focus...
Ideally you need to match the blend to the depth.
I think it works better with the gimp focal blur plugin as you can provide a depth map, and it actually blurs the image based on the greyscale depth of field map.
Also, a slight areal perspective makes it more "miniature" looking.
Here is an example cropped from a phpto I took in Chicago:
Attachment 7762
and with the effect:
Attachment 7763
(I think the bg needed a bit more blur...)
-Rob A>
Last edited by RobA; 04-27-2010 at 03:47 PM.
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