Model or Real?

It's a real shot that's been processed to look like a model. It was all the rage here for about a fortnight in between IR and HDR I think ;)

It's done by masking the centre section of the image and then applying a lens blur filter to the unmasked areas. This gives the effect of a shallow DoF which your brain associates with macro type images and hence it looks like a model.

That particular example has been well done because the masking has been thought through and the whole cathedral is in focus. The trick with this technique is to get the right source image, you need to be looking down on the subject and it needs to be pretty well square on so that you can get the blurring to look natural.
 
Thanks, its pretty well done i must admit.

/leaves, as i know absolutely nothing about photography. but i might start learning. seems a pretty cool route to gone down.
 
For some reason, this style of photo has been getting a lot of mentions in various photography forums and magazines lately. I suppose the vast amount of new people coming into the digital camera area seeing novelty processing is to blame.

Or Cykey ;)

/runs
 
ElDude said:
For some reason, this style of photo has been getting a lot of mentions in various photography forums and magazines lately. I suppose the vast amount of new people coming into the digital camera area seeing novelty processing is to blame.

Or Cykey ;)

/runs
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<shaggy> It wasn't me </shaggy> I do HDR not TS :)
 
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