Depth of Field in Photoshop: Help!

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I have been trying all morning following a few guides but I can't seem to do it what so ever! It just looks poor :(.

So if anyone can point me in the diection of a easy to follow tutorial for CS3. It must be simple as I cant use PS to save my life.

OR..

You could do it for me :D:p

Here is the pic:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EMWXV0QS

File size is 2.2mb

Thanks :)
 
Duck.jpg


Yeah....that didnt really work out so good for me either. :P
 
If you want decent bokeh you should really just buy some fast lenses.

fake bokeh is the worst.
 
I faked the bokeh in this shot, I just cut around the fella and did a light gaussian blur

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I think you can get away with it but you have to be subtle, anything overt will be obvious
 
had a quick go and got this with a few minutes, not great but if you had more time you could tidy it up. It'll never be as good as using a nice 1.4/1.8 lens though. Worthing getting a "nifty fifty" :)

dscf1669resizerg6.jpg
 
Yeah, the background is just soft, not the same thing.


I believe it is impossible to fake Bokeh because you would need to input the actual exact lighting conditions at the time of the shot into a complex function based on the optic of the lens used. The photo wont contain enough information to recreate the original input data even if one had an accurate model of the lens optics.
 
Cuchulain said:
He doesn't necessarily need a faster lens, just a higher aperture and longer focal distance.
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true but it does help


Raikiri said:
He can't.
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of course he can, its legal you know :)


i`m guessing you mean hes shooting on a p&s or something? , if thats the case learning how to throw the background out would be more beneficial than learning how to fake it


in any event fake bokeh just doesnt work imo
 
Raikiri said:
Well he can... wouldn't be much use to him with an S9600 though ;)
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This was one of the main reasons I ditched my bridge camera and went SLR I just couldn't get the depth of field effects I wanted it's one of the big limitations of the smaller sensors.
 
I think the problems you are having trying to fake it cant be fixed. What you have done from what i can tell is to select the head via a mask or the lasso tool. This seems to also be the problem for most of the toher attempts. It doesnt look real because the edges you have selected are to strong and noticable, there is a definite difference between the background and the object in focus.
The solution to this is to get the out of focus background to fade into the infocus foreground.

To do this, simply just duplicate the layer and gaussain blur it. The apply a layermask over that layer and brush the layer mask with a black brush, this will revela the layer below. Do this in all the areas that you want in focus, and with a bit of practice, you should get something a lot better.
This is about as good as it will get really i feel.
DSCF1669.jpg
 
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