{"id":1686,"date":"2010-05-11T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:48:35","slug":"sharpsoft-overlay-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/05\/11\/sharpsoft-overlay-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp\/Soft Overlay with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This image was created from two images made with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6 L IS lens. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops: 1\/60 sec. at f\/5.6. Read on for the details.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

On the way to the Santa Clara ranch in Starr County, TX last week we stopped to photograph the huge sunflowers in early morning light. I had long ago learned the trick of creating one sharp image of a flower and one defocused image and then laying one atop the other and playing with the opacity to produce a sort of glowing rendition of the flower. To create the image above I came up with a new twist. <\/p>\n

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This image was sharply focused.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This next image would be the top image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Before pressing the shutter button I defocused the flower. I actually made several variations to give me several choices for my soft image.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I brought both images into Photoshop. The sharp image served as the base image. While working with the soft image I hit Control A, Control J to place the entire image on a layer. Then I used the Move Tool (V) to drag the soft image layer on top of the sharp base image. I reduced the Opacity of the upper (soft) layer so that I could position it directly above the sharp image. (I had neglected to lock the tripod.) Then came the twist. I set the opacity of the soft image layer back to 100%, created a layer mask (as I learned to do from Robert O’Toole’s APTATS II CD), and then erased the center portion of the soft flower revealing the sharp center below. The image looked OK but I continued to experiment by erasing the dark triangular spaces between the bases of the petals. Volia. <\/p>\n

I have been inspired to think out of the box by Denise Ippolito, BPN’s Out-of-the-Box Forum Moderator. She is incredibly creative. To see what Denise and others thought of my sharp\/soft with a twist sunflower, check out my BPN post here: http:\/\/www.birdphotographers.net\/forums\/showthread.php?t=63329<\/a> After you read the thread, be sure to check out the great stuff that Denise and the regular OOTB folks are doing on a daily basis by visiting the Forum and checking out the thumbnails. <\/p>\n

To learn more about APTATS click here: https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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On the way to the Santa Clara ranch in Starr County, TX last week we stopped to photograph the huge sunflowers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,28,5,14,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-800mm-f5-6","category-educational","category-photography-tips","category-photoshop-tips","category-workflow-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}