Fake DOF

[BowerR64]

Been wanting a different BG for shooting indoors give some color thought ide try the "poster" setting with my printer. You can see the sections but its still kinda neat. A shot of a pretty christmas tree with packages under it, a fireplace off to the left and sun shinning threw the window onto the fresh vacumed floor might be kinda cool. :D

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Junk/FakeDOF.jpg

First i shot outside the backwindow with the camera in Super macro for that cheezy DOF blurr. Then i printed it (fast low quality first to save ink) taped to a foam board.

[steveLe]

hehe its a fun idea... but if i ever wanted to get a fake DOF, id just for with photoshop. then you can really get the correct lighting and what not. looks good though! =D

[BowerR64]

Well i just mainly wanted a neat backdrop but i want it to look like its really taken outside, or in the middle of a tennis match with a sold out stadium or maybe on a park bench near the river.

I went and got some new foam boards and got this contact paper that has a wood grain. I put the contact paper over the foam board so its looks like wood but its real light. Foam boards work great as quick backdrops for pictures. I looked at some posters but i wanted that out of focus look ya know.

Now it looks like im really taking pictures out back on the patio table. :D

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Junk/outbackfaker.jpg

[Wesan]

You're very inventive, BowerR64! Not only about this, but about a lot of other things too, that you have shown here. :)

One thing that might show that you were not really outside when you took the pictures, is the shadows behind the things you photograph. Though, if you can get the lighting better, so you don't get those shadows, and maybe get the sections to show less also, it would be even better. :)

Cool idea! :cool:

[BowerR64]

Yeah i know, its an idea though. Maybe some one can put their own little spin and come up with some other neat idea.

Ive always been creative with things, its fun to tinker and build things i enjoy it. Its fun to build somthing then use a camera to show on forums. You get feedback from so many other people makes it more enjoyable.

It was guitars and stuff last year, a few years before that it was R/C cars and nitro engines.

The internet is a blast.

Here is a few things i did summer of 2005

Home made "Axe" from scratch
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/guitar/woodpiletoaxe.jpg

Stock steinberger to a "5150 vanhalen" steinberger thing
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/guitar/blackto5150.jpg

Headless copy to a Topgun F14 sorta thing
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/guitar/headlesscopy.jpg

Keep in mind the guitars were before photography, my camera is and older fuji FX10 and i didnt know much about photography then so the pictures are very poor.

[BowerR64]

Does it look like im shooting infront of a window? i covered the sections of paper with electrical tape to make it look like panes of glass.

What do ya think? does it look more realistic?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Camera/edit/Fakewindow.jpg

[Wesan]

(---) Ive always been creative with things, its fun to tinker and build things i enjoy it. Its fun to build somthing then use a camera to show on forums. You get feedback from so many other people makes it more enjoyable.

It was guitars and stuff last year, a few years before that it was R/C cars and nitro engines.


So...are you telling us that sometime next year (like a few months from now), you'll leave us at these forums, because you'll have a new hobby then? :eek: :p

[Wesan]

Does it look like im shooting infront of a window? i covered the sections of paper with electrical tape to make it look like panes of glass.

What do ya think? does it look more realistic?


Yeah, it looks more realistic now. :) Aside from the reflexes in the tape. Did you use the flash when you took the picture?

[BowerR64]

Yeah i used the flash and a slave flash.

I dono if ill have a new hobby or not, its hard to tell. I didnt plan on this even being a hobby i wanted a camera to take pictures of my guitars to buy and sell on e-bay. Buy one play it a while then sell it and get somthing else. Once i got into cameras i kinda got out of the last hobby. I usualy get into somthing so hard i get burnt out so i find wothing else.

This hobby is to much fun and its good to know.

[BowerR64]

I used our kitchen table to trace a curve and i cut a curve into the foam board on the bottom to give it that round table look. Any more real looking? lol

This is funny :D

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Camera/edit/Faketable.jpg

[downtrodden]

I'm usually the same way with my hobbies bower. And mine are very eclectic. I go in cycles usually.. i'll fall into a hobby hard and then get bored of it and move on to something else. but i almost always come back to my old hobbies in some way. Photography has been the cheapest hobby i've gotten into so far haha. well.. maybe aside from the two S's. haha.

Anywho.. cool idea on the backdrop.

[BowerR64]

Ive always come back to hobbies also, there is no cheap hobbie that ive ever found. Maybe rock collecting but i never got into that. Music isnt cheap, R/C models isnt cheap and so far this hobbie hasnt been cheap either. I got into those stunt kites a few years ago, i couldnt just have one i had to have 10. I also got into computers, i couldnt just have 1 i had to build 3