Background:
Leather scrap hanging from door. Christmas lights hanging from door as well.
Object:
Brass container set about 1 - 1.5 meters from the background to get proper focus. I set the camera to manual. Set the aperture to the maximum available to get the blurred background.
Camera setup about 1 meter in front of the cup.
Post Processing:
Minimum adjustments to exposure and color in RAW.
The background was left alone for the most part (I spot healed a few spots on the upper orange circle), and all of the editing was done on the cup.
In PS CS3 I used an adjustment layer and selected the cup using the polygonal tool. I filled the layer with "black" and then used the paintbrush tool to paint the cup "white". This brought the brightness of the cup up.
I then used unsharp mask on the cup only with a high radius and lower intensity. This brought out the engravings on the cup.
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Beautiful use of bokeh as a part of the subject. Where foregrounds and backgrounds meet to make something new is something only camera's can hold for a viewer to see. Beautifully done.
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