Man I just cant seem to get this at all. I wanted to take a macro shot of a mobile phone for GoSnap and I wanted it to be the number 5 in focus and the rest of the numbers blurred.

I was given some great advice, and have tried to follow it but its just not clicking at all.

Heres the best of the few (ok loads) that I took trying to get it right!

Mobile 1: almost there .. need a bit more blurriness on the other numbers tho:

Mobile 2: now if I could get the 5 like the 8 and the rest of the numbers like the 5 I would be happy (well happier lol)

Remote: Copied Johns remote idea, to see if I could get it on there. I focused on the menu button and its kinda got it hasnt it ? .. its not quite just the menu button, its the full menu ring .. but i’m getting there lolol

ps: apologies for the mankiness of my remote :EmbarrassedSmilieHere:

Stumble it!

Another project on the GoSnap forum was DOF.

Before I joined that forum I vaguely knew what DOF was, but had no idea how to get it intentionally. I had taken photographs in the past and occasionally had been lucky and accidentally got DOF, but now I want to learn how to do it when I want it to happen.

I did some reading up, and decided to take the plunge with some Carnation’s. I have to admit, that I got some really bad shots before I managed to get this one, as I am still unsure about how the settings work properly, but I am getting the hang of it.

I know that the bud to the left of the photograph shouldn’t really be in focus, but the rest of it was done intentionally, without the use of the Auto setting on my camera. I used aperture priority, and changed the settings to get what I needed.

I posted it in the projects forum and SteveDM suggested I up the contrast and boost the curves .. hmmmm .. what are bloody curves I thought to myself lol
Again I went to the tutorials part to see if there was anything in there, and yes there was a tutorial on how to correct/boost your curves.
I followed the tutorial but, I wasn’t sure what curves where and what was supposed to be changing lolol
This is the result of doing it in photoshop, as per the tutorial:

I then opened it up in PSP and had a go at their curve settings. I grasped the basic drift of what PS was doing, and applied it in PSP and got this:

I have to admit I think the colours are a lot better in this photograph, and if I am honest, they are more true to the real flowers. I had originally taken the photograph late at night, in a room with just the normal ceiling light on, and thats obviously affected the colours.

Stumble it!

One of the projects over at GoSnap was macro - so I attempted my first ever macro shot using my mobile phone buttons, as suggested in the write up!

Unfortunately it hasn’t turned out well lol. I need more DOF on the other buttons, and the colour doesn’t seem right, but I wanted to post it as it was before I did any alterations.

This is the same picture but with the colour altered, and a spot of fake DOF lol:

Stumble it!