Managing Soft Focus
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ometimes we want shallow depth of field, but due to the lens we’re using or the camera-subject distance, the background behind a subject is more define, more in focus than we want.
value to the image. I darkened the onlookers, and that helped a lot. But the people dressed in street clothing and the unattractive body language divert the eye from the subjects and degrade the picture.
For example, I took the photo below at the Jember Fashion Carnaval (that’s how they spell carnival in Indonesia) in Jember, East Java, Indonesia, and the crowd behind the costumed participants didn’t add anything of artistic
On the next page, I blurred the audience and eliminated all of the detail from that portion of the image. Now there is nothing to look at there, and our attention rests solely where it’s supposed to be -- on the great costumes.
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