September 3

This was a thought for the pastel challenge at dpc. BUT, I hate pictures of toys and trinkets, so I usually try to avoid entering them, myself. :)

It was shot with a shutter speed around 15, handheld, so I had intended to do a "soft focus" kind of thing on it. It was sharper than I thought, so I did a high contrast bw with it. Yes, the highlights are blown. yes, that is on purpose.





Then, just because I want to learn how, I did it using a soft focus technique. I duplicated a layer, then applied gaussian blur at a radius of 5.95. Then, I reduced the opacity to around 50 or so. viola. Definitely something I am going to play with some more.