Don't you hate it when you walk from one room to another and forget what you're in that room for? I'm not afraid to admit that this happens to me quite a bit. I can thank my dad for this awesome family trait. Why couldn't it have been rock hard abs instead? Anyway, it seems that when this happens anymore I just go with it and find something else to do. If it was important enough, I'll remember eventually. Take this photograph for example. I was in the process of doing something, but my son asked my 5 or 6 rapid fire questions. That was enough to make me forget to switch the laundry out of the washer and into the dryer. I took the opportunity to try out my home-made flash diffuser. I guess it beats cleaning the lint filter out on the dryer. I opened my wife's book and these words ironically jumped out at me begging to be photographed. I couldn't get the results I wanted. To get the disorienting look I had to use a large aperture setting to have a narrow depth of field. Either the top or bottom of the words were just out of focus. I was too lazy to get my tripod out of the car, so I came up with another soultion. I made the aperture smaller to increase the depth of field in order to get the whole subject in focus. Then in photoshop, I used numerous layers with varying gaussian blur settings and gradients in the layer masks to create the cool bokeh while keeping the subject in sharp focus. I compared it to the natural bokeh shots and it's hard to tell the difference between them. Friday, February 8, 2008
Confusion And Inspiration
Don't you hate it when you walk from one room to another and forget what you're in that room for? I'm not afraid to admit that this happens to me quite a bit. I can thank my dad for this awesome family trait. Why couldn't it have been rock hard abs instead? Anyway, it seems that when this happens anymore I just go with it and find something else to do. If it was important enough, I'll remember eventually. Take this photograph for example. I was in the process of doing something, but my son asked my 5 or 6 rapid fire questions. That was enough to make me forget to switch the laundry out of the washer and into the dryer. I took the opportunity to try out my home-made flash diffuser. I guess it beats cleaning the lint filter out on the dryer. I opened my wife's book and these words ironically jumped out at me begging to be photographed. I couldn't get the results I wanted. To get the disorienting look I had to use a large aperture setting to have a narrow depth of field. Either the top or bottom of the words were just out of focus. I was too lazy to get my tripod out of the car, so I came up with another soultion. I made the aperture smaller to increase the depth of field in order to get the whole subject in focus. Then in photoshop, I used numerous layers with varying gaussian blur settings and gradients in the layer masks to create the cool bokeh while keeping the subject in sharp focus. I compared it to the natural bokeh shots and it's hard to tell the difference between them. 
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Nice effect with the Gaussian Blur. I would have thought the bokeh was done in camera.
You aren't alone with walking into a room and forgetting what you were going to do. I've had that problem for several years and it has only worsened with age. See what you have to look forward to!
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