You can also make the background blurred by applying a gaussian blur, going back in history, and using the history brush to selectively apply the blur ... so this eliminates the need for fast lenses. But, there is a satisfaction to making things happen without the help of folks from Adobe.
saaketham wrote:
You can also make the background blurred by applying a gaussian blur, going back in history, and using the history brush to selectively apply the blur ... so this eliminates the need for fast lenses
PS is not the same. Both the TS-E 45 & 90 are beautiful lenses.
There are DIY options that will allow you to play around for a few dollars.
I did precisely one "toy effect" shot (kind of) with my TS-E's and regretted it... some photographers make is a trademark effect and can even pull it off, but it's all ready been done too much IMO, so unless you have some really new idea of how to use it, maybe look into the more subtle creative options available from these lenses.
If it wasn't for the TS-E's I think think I would be out of Canon at this point, but the 45 & 90 are spectacular optics (very un-Canon-like).
I think that anyone that has done either of these effects in photoshop quickly realizes how fake they look. There is NO way to OOF highlights accurately with guassian blur, or lens blur. Especially any part that's close to a part that is in focus.
He's not kidding...look at the example above in this thread. I have done it (not quite this well) and have some $$$ making ideas for it (already have a client lined up).
Maybe .. not really. I was saying that just because we can mimick the effects of a shallow DOF with a lot of photoshop clicking, it doesn't mean we don't need fast lenses. You can crank up the ISO and still get relatively clean images, so shooting indoors also can be solved without a fast lens. But, there is a certain satisfaction in doing it all in-camera, and not using PS to mimick the effect a lens can produce naturally.
Anyway .. if someone who has done this toy effect with a TS/E lens could explain to us TS/E newbies - it'd be greatly appreciated. Vincent Laforet has several such images on his website. And some look cheesy, while some look stunning, IMHO. It is an entire different way of seeing at such a scale.
Chris Warburton ... could you please post the original image, without this effect? So we can see whether the toy effect is because of the scale and how our brains expect the image to be? Thanks.
