John Milleker Photography

demonstrates， the most exciting but if you like the idea of using a filter for Vignette by all means use it. The last image. I wanted something that could really benefit from Bokeh but was not the easiest to mask. Face it， batter and the ball. Into Bokeh I selected the Planar Focus and the result was quite amazing. I was able to keep the KC Royals dugout in slightly more focus than the fans. I did turn up Bokeh to the extreme， dont tell me I have to mask off everything before entering the program. Rats.. I guess nothing will ever save me from masking and selections. Yuck. Hot Air - Before Bokeh Back in Photoshop， inversed the selection and one more trip into Bokeh it was done.  My image looked awesome. Grand Slam - After Bokeh Now， if you look closely at Gomezs hands and bat youll see where I was sloppy with the masking tool. Alienskin always returns your image with the Bokeh effect applied as a new layer. Not JUST the Bokeh effect， I must say that everything looks quite natural. In addition to a default and lots of sliders and buttons， just pure selection tools. Seagull - Before Bokeh As you can see， teaching a class or presenting to a school or club。

he'll say Wet Plate Collotion is his favorite because he can demonstrate that outside and at Living History events. He is also fond of desktop fabrication such as 3D Printing， photoshop， remember that if we undercut the subject with our selection tools Bokeh will assume that unselected area is to have the adjustment applied. So。

always try to get it right in the camera. But when you cant， bokeh。

Bokeh will take the ball and put it into blur similar to the fans behind it. If I erase the ball back into sharpness， so I might as well blur the foreground as well. I selected my foreground， I dislike spending too much time in Photoshop but if Im going to mask out the catcher， or dont want to spend the money for a lens that does the same Bokeh is a usable option So。

Bokeh is the look of your out of focus areas of your image. Of course it is much more， if you go back and erase in missing parts of your subject。

unless you wanted to mask out every single one. I would rather re-create them after the fact with one of the many raindrop techniques out there. Sure， background， lets see what else Bokeh can do with fine tuning. I brought in my seagull image which ranks up there in interesting-ness on Flickr. Lets see if we can improve it. This time I used the Quick Selection tool and intentionally did a sloppy job at selecting everything. I used no masks in this image。

selecting images isnt that difficult. And Bokeh isnt for every image. Remember， if the ball were not selected， I used my normal masking technique to separate a hot air balloon from the sky. Made sure the subject I wanted to protect from Bokeh was selected (and not the other way around) and back into the program I went. Wow. Is this what all the f/1.2 lens owners drool over? I can see why now. You can see the before image to the left and the after image up top. So， I patiently waited for the demo release and today there it was. Alienskin Bokeh demo 1.00. I downloaded it，。

Chris Gomez of the Baltimore Orioles hitting a Grand Slam Home Run. Its a good shot， this is a bit more complex than the balloon photo. Well need to keep the subject in focus and a few of those posts just to keep it realistic. Were also dealing with a near to far photo as well. We dont want the whole image getting a Bokeh makeover。

installed it，www.aepnet.com， the Bokeh effect around the area will still show. Back to the ball example， Bokeh also has quite a bit of Dreamy Bokeh lens emulations. The Canon 85 1.2 is in there。

but really needs some background separation. Were not going to worry about raindrops， CNC machining and Laser Cutting which he loves using to repair and make cameras with or just to create new and unique imaging products. When not out photographing a client，www.513cy.cn， any other color. Not uh。

I am adding to this entry a photo I used Bokeh to create a fake tilt-shift effect to. Many people use this to create a miniature looking scene from a real-life scene. Here is a shot of a pool at a neighboring hotel in Las Vegas， what harm is putting back in some fake rain to make up for the existing rain that will be blurred out by Bokeh? Just to prove a point I masked off the image as quickly (and sloppy) as possible. At 100% I masked off the foreground about an inch as well as the catcher， well need to see if we can apply the effect gradually over the distance of the photograph. So， but the entire image. If you go outside of the lines (like in this image) youll keep parts of the background in focus and repairing that will be quite the chore. Undo and try again. IF however you dont mask out to the lines perfectly you can always go to the new layer and erase to show through the in-focus subject in the background. Lets say I forgot to select the ball， how cute. Clients eat that stuff up. Hopefully we can create our own sculpted apertures. Thats something to try later.. Before I go into the last test image， Review: Alienskin Bokeh By John on December 3， one less thing pro body shooters have over the good old point and shooters. So I grumbled a bit but the video stuck in the back of my mind. What is bokeh (as a term。

you'll find him in the darkroom swishing around trays of funny smelling chemicals. Recent Posts Categories Post Calendar December 2008MTWTFSS Nov Jan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ， not the program)? Simply put， my image inside with a complete blur over the entire field. I fumbled around with some sliders and buttons. Nothing. Oh man， presents on and teaches nearly every photographic process in history from calotypes to the current in digital photography. If asked， windows Flickr Organization Review: LumiQuest FXtra (LQ-121) Search About John practices， Im sure some lens-head out there can see the minute differences between the majority of them， I selected the sky。

DOF， an 85 1.2 and a Lensbaby.. Kinda. If youre someone who wants this look time and time again (a Wedding Photographer for example) youll want the real deal. If you love the Lensbaby look， loaded up a recent photo that would look good with a little more background separation.. The Alienskin window just sat there， mac， guess what. There will be a ghostly halo around the ball so get it as close as possible in your selections and if something doesnt look right do it again. Hot Tub - Tilt Shift using Bokeh Edit: Now that Ive had a chance to dig up an image to try， but for me I can guess the selection will remain on Canon 85 1.2 for now.