Make your 3.5 screenshots beautiful with this one simple trick!

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As for me, I always focus on eyes ; )

By the way, while I love shallow depth of field and I use it very often in real life and in games, it can be easily overused. In many cases it's better to use smaller apertures / higher f-stop, especially when the background is interesting.

Take this as an example: wide aperture gives a nice blurred background, but in this particular case a background is actually very cool, so it's worth to keep it sharp. Besides, by using higher f-stop all elements of the subject are sharp, which, in case of people, is very important -- this way both eyes and nose are still in focus, which is impossible with a small f-stop.



A B S O L U T E L Y ! ! !

DOF blur is HEAVILY overused. It has a mainstream "oooh cool" effect but often times servers no purpose to the composition, narrative, etc of the image overall. I should have added a disclaimer to the video:

"now that you know HOW... don't over do it! Use DOF blur with thoughtful purpose rather than reckless abandon"
 

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Check out my OLD cheat sheet then... ignore all mentions of "chase camera" as it was removed shortly after I made this (in alpha 2.6)


What a great key chart, amazing work on that, this would make it easy to make a "Stream deck" layout to use when taking screenshots or videos. AWESOME work @mr-hasgaha :D

A B S O L U T E L Y ! ! !

DOF blur is HEAVILY overused. It has a mainstream "oooh cool" effect but often times servers no purpose to the composition, narrative, etc of the image overall. I should have added a disclaimer to the video:

"now that you know HOW... don't over do it! Use DOF blur with thoughtful purpose rather than reckless abandon"

I'm a photographer been doing that for over 40 years and you just said the one thing I say to people starting out in photography.

"Don't over do the background blur (DOF) or the bokeh effects keep it to a minimum,
a lot of (DOF) blur is fine in some images but rarely serve a purpose in general for a good composition or image story telling.
Try use it to your advantage to focus what you want people to look at without removing the hole story the image can tell.
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CHEERS! :D

SIDE NOTE: Thought I add some reference... I let the pictures speak for them self :D
(the .com address on the pictures don't lead anywhere any more, but to a empty page so no point in trying it.) ;)








CHEERS!
 
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While this may offend some, I believe that at this rate of content creation, I can sincerely compare @mr-hasgaha with Leonardo Da Vinci in regards of @mr-hasgaha being an artistic master in the digital media realm. This being stated, I also have to give the utmost credit to the Dev's at CIG for their parts in this as well. Together, they make a most glorious team.

I noticed, thanks August!
 

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What a great key chart, amazing work on that, this would make it easy to make a "Stream deck" layout to use when taking screenshots or videos. AWESOME work @mr-hasgaha :D




I'm a photographer been doing that for over 40 years and you just said the one thing I say to people starting out in photography.

"Don't over do the background blur (DOF) or the bokeh effects keep it to a minimum,
a lot of (DOF) blur is fine in some images but rarely serve a purpose in general for a good composition or image story telling.
Try use it to your advantage to focus what you want people to look at without removing the hole story the image can tell.
"

CHEERS! :D

SIDE NOTE: Thought I add some reference... I let the pictures speak for them self :D
(the .com address on the pictures don't lead anywhere any more, but to a empty page so no point in trying it.) ;)








CHEERS!
YES YES YES!
And amazing shots!!
 
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