Re: Lensbaby Sponsored Selective Blur Photography Competition

Hi David, Paul and Patrick,

All agreed. You've done a better job than I did in pointing out how much 
work there can be in duplicating the effect. What I'd meant to say is 
that a rough approximation is probably not too difficult to simulate in 
PS. But the detail of it, as shown in David's shot, would be much 
harder. There are other effects Sometimes better done in camera. Some of 
the diffusion filter approaches redistribute highlight/shadow values in 
ways that the obvious PS approaches don't.

In many cases who can afford to spend the time in PS to duplicate (or 
even approximate) something you can do in camera. I gather a lot of 
wedding/****trait guys use the Lensbaby and I can't imagine many of them 
would enjoy or want to spend a lot of time with PS to do something they 
can do in camera in seconds.

Cheers,

Wayne

Wayne J. Cosshall
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Paul Furman wrote:
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
>> myemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone with the least bit of rudimentary editing skills can replicate 
>>> these disastrous "lensbaby" results in post-processing, EXACTLY.
>>
>> OK - do this in Photoshop - replicate the complex aberration artefacts 
>> in this f2 shot from the 3G -
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/davidkilpatrick/image/79029143/original.jpg
> 
> Ha, great example!
> There's the issue of foreground/background overlaps as well which is a 
> LOT of work to fake in photoshop.
>