August 21, 2012 - Chinese Garden

Wombat · 08-21-2012, 11:15 PM

You don't even need a special lense: you can easily recreate the effect in Photoshop/GIMP, once you've taken your photo from a high angle as suggested above. It's a two-step process:
1. Increase colour saturation (colours in a macro-mode photo seem brighter than in a long-distance colour).
2. Apply a blur filter so the upper and lower parts are blurred and the central area stays in focus (this fakes the limited depth of field of a macro-mode photo of a small model).

08-21-2012, 11:15 PM	#2
Wombat (marsupial with backward-facing pouch) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canberra Posts: 251	You don't even need a special lense: you can easily recreate the effect in Photoshop/GIMP, once you've taken your photo from a high angle as suggested above. It's a two-step process: 1. Increase colour saturation (colours in a macro-mode photo seem brighter than in a long-distance colour). 2. Apply a blur filter so the upper and lower parts are blurred and the central area stays in focus (this fakes the limited depth of field of a macro-mode photo of a small model). __________________ If you don't do it properly, you'll get to the pub sooner.

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