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Wednesday Photography Blog No. 5 [WITH UPDATE] | 153 comments (153 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Wednesday Photography Blog No. 5 (4.00 / 12)

A staff awayday last week, in a very beautiful, middle of nowhere hotel. Rolling hills and woodland around us. The sun was shining all through lunch and we opened the patio doors at the end of the dining room. It felt like the last of the warm summer breeze was coming through. The air has been chilly ever since.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 06:33:30 AM EST

Re: Wednesday Photography Blog No. 5 (none / 1)

I love this last photo. How do you achieve the blurred background. Is that done in the camera settings or with photoshop.
I was discussing this blog with a friend in the U.S. He's quite a good photographer and photoshopper. He really liked the shot of Gioele last week of the German policeman checking the bicycle but thought it should be cropped and the background blurred, either through aperture or photoshop. I asked him to show me what he meant and he redid the photo. If Gioele comes on later I'll ask him if he'd like me to post it here.
P.S. I don't know if Gioele is a man or a woman.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 07:59:32 AM EST
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Re: Wednesday Photography Blog No. 5 (none / 1)

Aperture, in camera. I'm actually rubbish with photoshop, so I try to get my shots as I want them in camera and do as little as possible on computer.

There is enough of a distance between the table and the background to completely blur out the background. I used f/2.8.

Large aperture (smaller f stop number) reduces depth of field which means only a small distance/area is in focus.
I usually shoot in manual now so I have this kind of control over the shot.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 09:57:35 AM EST
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Re: Wednesday Photography Blog No. 5 (none / 1)

I almost always use aperture priority.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 09:59:53 AM EST
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That's quicker than setting the exposure as well. Not sure why but I seem to have developed a preference for entirely manual. Maybe because that is how I used my old film camera, there were no other settings for it.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 10:21:26 AM EST
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Re: Posting... and gender. (none / 1)

Hello LEP,

Please post it, I'd love to see what he did with it...

BTW: I'm a man... (spelled with a capital 'M'!).

I can't ever write that without thinking of these two songs.

Muddy w/ The Band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQnmA-Q4AI

The Yardbirds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9F0MtZCCZU

by gioele (gioele(daught)sandler(aaaattttt)gmail(daught)kom) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 01:28:44 PM EST
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Re: Posting... and gender. (4.00 / 4)

I thought you were a guy, but I've been wrong several times on ET. Here's your photo cropped and blurred.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 01:56:55 PM EST
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Re: Posting... and gender. (4.00 / 2)

No slight, 'women are smarter' (GD reference).

It's interesting taking the scene out of its larger context. It makes it seem more surreal, and mysterious.

Cool...

by gioele (gioele(daught)sandler(aaaattttt)gmail(daught)kom) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 02:19:28 PM EST
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Re: Posting... and gender. (none / 0)

it does make it a bit seamy though.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Oct 3rd, 2007 at 02:20:54 PM EST
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I'm a man... (none / 1)

And the Chicago Transit Authority:

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Thu Oct 4th, 2007 at 02:03:35 PM EST
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