“What I am interested in” could mean just about anything or anyone. ![]() I like to say that I am a “Photographer as Poet.” I photograph what I am interested in, and I figure out a way to market my work after I’ve made it. Peonies (with inken) on washi © Harold Davis Thank you very much everyone who has supported this project, and a big shout-out to the original sponsors on Kickstarter (where pricing started at $600!). This is the last copy that was priced at $1200, and the price is now $1950 for numbers 16-20. An art world client specifically asked me to create some square compositions from my flower photos, and I was pleased to see this work out with the image of Special Tulips shown above.īotanique benchmark: I am excited and happy that a collector has agreed to buy the fifteenth copy of Botanique. Personally, I’ve always enjoyed looking at square imagery, but it isn’t a compositional format that has come naturally to me. You can even create images that extensions of the capture size, such as panoramas or David Hockney-style photo collages. ![]() A photo can be cropped in many different proportions, with the only practical constraint the available resolution if one is “throwing away” pixels. With digital, there is less reason to be bound by the internal framing of the capture device. This is very strong when you consider traditional film photography: a 35mm negative is framed in a 1.5 to 1 proportion, and a medium format negative is generally square. Our concept of “framing” derives from the shape of the image that the camera captures. Creating selective blurring on images with more complex foreground to background relationships that do require precise depth maps is likely to still be a challenge.My use of the word “framing” here refers of course to the borders of an image (or print)-and not to the external frame that is put around or over a work of art. The focus and blur effects that don’t require a complex depth map all produce very good results. It provides very good results for many of its offerings (the weakest in my opinion are the pinhole and toy camera effects). Lens Effects is a useful plug-in for those who want a wide variety of lens effects easily accessible in one place. The interface and procedure for creating and editing these masks is very promising, but on some images I found myself wishing that I could make fully manual edits to the depth map to address errors in the automated process (the edits you do make are user-directed, but the program computes the change, so the tools aren’t totally manual). Overall, it does a good job at defining these areas and creating a mask of gray values from foreground (black) to background (white), though there are occasional inaccurate edges. ![]() There are several presets for many of the effects, or you can create you own presets.įor the Bokeh – SLR Lens and Bokeh – Selective effects, you can make a depth map to define what areas should be in focus. The interface is very Lightroom-esque with effects and presets on the left, a center preview area, and specific controls for each effect on the right. Lens Effects is available as a plug-in for Photoshop, as well as Lightroom and Aperture. This includes bokeh effects (shallow depth of field, blurry backgrounds) tilt-shift or creative blur (think Lensbaby) toy camera-like color and focus deficiencies graduated neutral-density filters or modifications like fixing geometric distortion, adding grain, or simple vignettes. Topaz Labs recently released Lens Effects, a plug-in that offers the ability to add a wide variety of lens-type effects to your photos. Photoshop Plug-in Mimics Lens Blur Effects
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