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09-OCT-2008 Melbob

6th Place "Go Green" by Melbob

Melbourne

Natural light, shallow DOF to emphasise message on bag and eyes.
Copied/pasted/shrunk twice to get frame effect and filled the middle layer with darker green.

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
1/800s f/1.8 at 50.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Canon DSLR Challenge14-Oct-2008 18:26
Love those "green" bags - I try to use mine when I shop but sometimes I forget to put them back in the car and then don't have them for the next shopping trip. Cute little critter reading the message too! :-) CJ
jnconradie10-Oct-2008 05:49
Thanks! And again, well done! Regards Nico
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Oct-2008 02:10
Thanks Nico, this is exactly as composed and shot. I opened the lens fully to isolate the ugly back fence and that gave me a very shallow DOF.

I suspect that this cheapy lens back-focuses because I actually focussed on the eyes and in fact the immediate foreground is in sharp focus. (It was hand held so I may have moved slightly after locking focus)

The only pp here is sizing to 800 px and mucking around with some sort of frame thingy.

Regards Bob
jnconradie09-Oct-2008 19:38
I like this a lot, Melbob... a LOT! Was the OOF background all "natural" due to the f/1.8, or was this enhanced by applying some blur filter to the OOF regions? Not that it matters. I am just surprised by the sharp transition? Super pic! Regards Nico