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I'd like to thank the academy...

© Bob Fehringer

I'd like to thank the academy...

Uploaded: January 22, 2005

Description

Dan Yahl (cq), 6, of O'Fallon,IL. reacts to the news that he won an award for best paint job on his Pinewood Derby racer.

Shot during a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Saturday, Jan. 22 at Moye School in O'Fallon, IL. Nikkor 80-200 2.8 ED lens at 5.6, ISO 1600.

Comments

Bob Fehringer January 22, 2005

I almost forgot, the little guy on the right offering his congratulations is Connor Eghigian, 7. Both are members of Cub Scout Pack 95, Den 7 in O'Fallon IL.

BF
www.sportsshooter.com/aavspj #207890

January 22, 2005

Hey Bob, I like that you blurred (using depth of field I imagine?????) the people on the back. They could have been very distracting. The expression on both of them makes the image especial. Good stuff #1057018

Stan Kwasniowski January 23, 2005

Bob, tell me oh wise one, Is this shot with a digital, I must have read the description wrong?? It cant be, lol

Pulling your leg Bob, and it is a great shot, congratulations

Stan Kwasniowski #1058177

Protacio Serna January 23, 2005

hehehe...great moment...excellent title.

Good shot.

Protacio Serna
http://www.pserna.com
#1058349

Bob Fehringer January 23, 2005

Thanks to you all. Fun subject hopefully result in fun images.

Rhina, yes, it's called isolating the subject, and yes, it involves select focus and reciprocity.

BF
www.sportsshooter.com #1058807

January 24, 2005

Bob, you didn't get my point...explain depth of field against blurring in PS. Are there pros and cons to each one? What does everyone think -- How's that for a discussion?

Rhina
#1061325

Bob Fehringer January 24, 2005

To me it's just a matter of doing it right the first time. I've had many years to practice select focus while some of the new or younger shooters have not and probably tend to spend less time shooting and more time fixing their images digitally. But I'd prefer not to go there yet again.

With all the nifty quick fixes available today, many just prefer to shoot now, fix later.

Have fun and keep shooting, no matter how you do it.

BF #1061336

Protacio Serna January 24, 2005

The new Lens Blur on PS CS seems to be a great solution but in an average situation it is the photographer who needs to get it right from the beginning.

Lens blur is a great tool for designers since they might want to get that selective focus effect and a new shoot is not possible.

My film SLRs are always in A mode cause to me it is an important decision and it should be done at that moment...not later.

If later I got second thoughts is because I was wrong and therefore the image is not what I wanted it to be. When this happens, I press “Del” key and click OK.

How is that for a neo-purist? …just kidding.

Take care.
Protacio
#1061418

Bob Fehringer January 25, 2005

As usual, I agree with you Protacio, but as you know, there are many out there who would like to do it all from a chair in front of a computer.

But everyone has to have fun, in their own way, I guess.

Keep the faith.
BF
#1063013

January 26, 2005

Bob, tell me, oh pompous one, doesn't your shoulder ache from patting yourself on the back so much? I don't know how you can even hold a camera! #1063676

Karma Wilson January 26, 2005

I consider myself a digital artist. I do lots of work from the "chair". I tone pictures, sharpen, create montages, etc..

But blurring the background isn't one. It looks unnatural in my opinion in PS. If there is curly hair on the subject the PS blurring is very obvious. It's so easy to get shallow DOF, it was one of the first techniques I learned in the camera. Being that it's simple (most portrait modes on any digitial will get it done--hardly rocket science--and if you want to do it manually, simple enough, open up your aperture). So why would you want to waste time blurring in PS if you can do it so easily? I only understand trying if the photographer has a camera not capable of getting shallow DOF--as some early digitals or P&S cameras didn't.

Cute shot Bob.

Karma #1064633


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