{"id":663,"date":"2009-09-15T02:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-05-27T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:23:25","slug":"focus-focus-using-blur-to-focus-in-on-your-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/focus-focus-using-blur-to-focus-in-on-your-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus!: Using Blur to Focus in on Your Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">With fashion photography we see photographers attempt an on location shoot with a gorgeous background.\u00a0 Too many times though, the background overshadows the true subject of the photo which is the clothing or the model.\u00a0 It&#8217;s necessary to take the focus away from the background and put it back on the model to make an impact.\u00a0 This can be done by simply cutting out your model using a low feather setting in Photoshop, copying it to a new layer, then applying a gaussian blur to the original layer.\u00a0 In the photo below, I have also increased the exposure on the model layer to brighten it up a bit.<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-666\" title=\"Original Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp1.jpg\" alt=\"Original Photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp1-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"Burred Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp2.jpg\" alt=\"Burred Photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp2.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pmpersp2-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burred Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fashion photography we see photographers attempt an on location shoot with a gorgeous background.\u00a0 Too many times though, the background overshadows the true subject of the photo which is the clothing or the model.\u00a0 It&#8217;s necessary to take the focus away from the background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[30,29,31,25,18,12,23,17,24,27,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.never30.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}