Just did a Google/images search on 'Sports Illustrated' and it was the
foregrounds that caught my attention :-)
On 10/05/2012, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Apropos my reply minutes ago to Ken about bokeh, I've been experimenting
>> off
>> and on with techniques to convert edgy
>> bokeh to smooth.
>>
>> This is the latest result, on an image specifically taken for the test.
>> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Bokeh/_MG_6431.htm>
>>
>> Too much hand work as yet, but I've made progress in automation, and am
>> starting to like the results.
>
>
> You might be able to created a semi-automated effect, but I can't help
> but think that variations between cameras and ISOs are going to fight
> you a bit. Or is it just my own experience with noisy/grainy/nasty
> olympus and/or film images shining through?
>
> The problem I have with this is Sports Illustrated does this all the
> time to their published images and frankly it looks aweful. Once you
> are aware of the effect, it becomes a distraction. It's gotten a
> little better in the past couple of years with an improvement in the
> camera files, but they take a nasty, high-iso image (jpeg at that with
> all the "worms" and then apply the blur effect to the background. So
> you have a subject with one look and the smearing applied to the
> background.
>
> Frankly, it looks disgusting.
>
> So, when I see the same thing done to a "fine art image", it curdles
> my toes and curls my stomach. You might as well just start
> substituting other backgrounds into your images. Granted, I'm taking
> kinda a harsh tone on this, but you've ripped off a scab and I've got
> to bleed a bit.
>
> Not that this is an evil project you're working on, and it does create
> another arrow for your quiver, but should be something that is used to
> save an image, not provide an excuse for not doing it right in the
> beginning. But even then, if the image needs this to save it, then
> maybe the image isn't that good in the first place?
>
> Preaching to myself here. Not you.
>
> AG
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