mr-hasgaha
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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)
Make your 3.5 screenshots beautiful with this one simple trick!
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mr-hasgaha
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A B S O L U T E L Y ! ! !You can use this one to express disapproval : )
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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.
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"
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 :DCheck 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)
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!
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mr-hasgaha
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mr-hasgaha
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YES YES YES!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!
And amazing shots!!