Distant Effect

[fatalimage]

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[mkuriger]

neither one look distant to me.

[Radtech1]

Anyway, how can I achieve the effect of the subject in a picture to feel/look distant and not so attached.

I hope I'm making sense with this. Thanks.

Not making sense to me. :o

I am wondering what you mean by "not so attached" - not so attached to what?

If you can, please try to find some shots that demonstrate what you mean, and link to them.

Rad

[Andrew B.]

I think you mean a photo in which the subject stands out from the background (so looks detached or distant from it, rather than part of the mess of details). There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to use a big aperture (small f number) to throw the background slightly out of focus. An alternative, which was used in that car photo you posted above, is to use extra lighting so that you have a different quality of light falling on the subject. You could do this with a reasonably powerful flash or steady lights. When your subject is large (like a car) and the ambient light is strong (like the sun often is) then you will need bigger and stronger lighting to make the subject "pop".

You would normally get the effect you desire when actually setting up the photo, rather than in post-processing, but you can achieve both versions of the effect in post-processing by selecting the background only and applying some gaussian blur (please be subtle though) or by selecting the subject only and playing with hue/saturation/levels etc.

Hope that helps.

Andrew

[cfcRebel]

...the first one is mine, the second, i borrowed from jcreech (http://jcreech.deviantart.com/gallery/)

Mine:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/447938437_aa7cbcfa77.jpg

I hope I'm making sense with this. Thanks.In this image, I think you can isolate the subject (car) from the background (if that is what you mean by distant effect) by using a telephoto lens. For experiment, go back to the same location shown above. Use your 70-200, zoom all the way to 200mm, open up the aperture (f2.8 or f4?), ISO100, but stand further away from the car this time. Try from a low angle if necessary. Hope that helps you find what you are looking for.

[fatalimage]

well i look for more examples. but it's difficult for me to explain this....i've thought about posting up this topic before but wasn't sure how to approach it. what ever subject this is in the picture, what i mean by distant or unattached is more towards the feel of the object rather than distance.

an example too is how video from a regular camcorder looks compared to how a movie looks, it's not really real life looking, it has a different feel to it. I don't know, I hope I am making some sense.


okay, these two pictures. the first picture has the effect i was saying compared to the second one which doesn't.

http://i.pbase.com/g6/10/382710/2/78452157.UEduOcUM.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c391/yankiedoodle/IMG_1761web.jpg

[Radtech1]

Well, dang -

Wouldnt you know it - the one you are posting as an example of what you want to learn is not coming through. See:

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[fatalimage]

Well, dang -

Wouldnt you know it - the one you are posting as an example of what you want to learn is not coming through. See:

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okay i fixed it, guess that link didn't work. i'm borrowing examples from different people.

[Rumjungle]

Well, since I can't see the examples and the short DOF approach has already been mentioned, if what you want is to make the subject appear closer and the background look further away, here's what you can do. Use a very wide lens with your subject close to you. That way, your subject will look magnified compared to the background.

[Tshoe]

Select the background (everything but the car and the road) and use gaussen (can't spell) blur to blur the background to your taste. yoy should also feather the selection a little to blend it in.

Terry