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face1 by thestemens16, on Flickr

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jack by thestemens16, on Flickr

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kiss by thestemens16, on Flickr
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Which do you like better?

Original
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wifegrand by thestemens16, on Flickr

Lomoized
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Lomo Grand Central by thestemens16, on Flickr

Focal Softened
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Softened Grand by thestemens16, on Flickr
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Softened
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face1soft by thestemens16, on Flickr

Focal Zoom
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Stove1zoom by thestemens16, on Flickr
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I like the softened version of the wife pic. With the focus on her and surrounding soft like that, it draws your eyes to her face, which I'm assuming was the intent. :-)
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Thanks Jeff. What about this one? I combined the effects?

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Lomo Soft Grand Central by thestemens16, on Flickr
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wife1-holgasoft by thestemens16, on Flickr
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The WB is too far off for me in that one. The B/W is another great one. She's has that 'WTF' look on her face.....lol. She photographs well!
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She does indeed :-)
Only thing is depending on the day sometimes she doesn't mind and sometimes she doesn't want her picture taken. :-)
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I think a lot of wives are like that, mine won't even let me take her picture. Crazy women!
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Yeh. But what can ya do. :-)


Here's the original
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wife1 by thestemens16, on Flickr

After some correction to the color
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wife1-2 by thestemens16, on Flickr
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:-)
Looks good to me brother. You work nights too?
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We both do.
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Nice, that works out well then!
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Indeed. Same place of work too. Saves on gas.
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:-) :-)

Not a fan of the lomo.

As is, the focal softened looks too fake (blur above her head where the eye expects it to be sharp + same blur applied across the entire photo), But it would totally be my vote IF you graduated strength of the blur (left and right edges being VERY blurry, lightening up till you get to the subject) ...
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I like all three of the ones above, they look great :-)
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How about this?

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this? by thestemens16, on Flickr
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Thanks :-)
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Exactly, looks very believable now :-)
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Here's what I whipped up whilst playing with it. I played with motion blur and gaussian blur, along with a black and white version.


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motion blur, color




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motion blur, black and white




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gaussian blur, color
(heavier blur than yours... a lighter blur like yours will look much more realistic, a heavier blur like this can be riskier, but gain a little more pop). given the two side by side, I would probably pick the lighter blur.



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gaussian blur, black and white
(heavier blur than yours... a lighter blur like yours will look much more realistic, a heavier blur like this can be riskier, but gain a little more pop). given the two side by side, I would probably pick the lighter blur.
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