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I took this through a fence, zoomed all the way in. Any thoughts?
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Could you have gotten any closer to the fence to shoot between the links? Here is the image with heavy editing. The most important thing was the WB adjustment. I do like the composition though!
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Actually, I really like that composition. The tongue gives it a interesting kick that draws interest. Good shot. The editing was done with the purpose in mind of keeping him from looking like he lived in a algae covered jungle, and moving him to a cold mountain.
@thefarmhand, I did some heavy editing and this came out.
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Isn’t that a different image? I didn’t see that much fence in the background of the first one. Ok, the last photo you posted may have too much editing for my taste. I’m assuming that you used a masking brush to blur the rest of the image in between the fence link blur. Just from my perspective, there’s a little too much color, the white balance is too “pink”, and the blurring is a little too strong. Trying to blur the background that much in editing doesn’t look natural. To improve the bokeh, you just need to: use a fast shutter speed, the widest aperture possible, zoom in as far as possible, and get the subject as close to the lens as possible. I’ll attach a image that I tried to blur in Lightroom, and you will see that the subject looks like it’s trying to “pop” out of the image. For some reason it just doesn’t look right to me.
Keep trying, and let me know what you come up with!
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Impressive subject for a picture, @joseph. It was the right thing to do to get as close to the fence as you could to shoot through it. It blurs the fence so much that you can hardly tell its there.
Which underscores what @thefarmhand said about how to create natural blur in your pictures. The things he listed will help create natural blur in your image, and I’ll add a 5th one . . . increase the distance between the subject and the background, if you can. Obviously, in this picture, you couldn’t tell the snow leopard to change position like you could if you were photographing people, but there’s always the option to change your vantage point to increase the distance between the subject and background.
Run some experiments and watch the natural blur appear!
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