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Selective Focus

Challenge #10 in the Pari's Series series. Hosted by Parinita Salian.

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Larger apertures, macro lenses, TS lenses lets you play around with depth of field creatively. You can create stunning images out of nothing by focusing on a particular part of your frame. Shoot from different angles to change the plane of focus and achieve different results using the same subject.

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Announced:

Friday, 20th February, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Friday, 27th February, 2009 – Thursday, 5th March, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Friday, 6th March, 2009 – Thursday, 12th March, 2009 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Basic post-processing only

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Images must have a certain part in focus and the rest out of focus. If the entire image area is in focus, it will be disqualified.
Images manipulated by adding filters like Blur will be disqualified

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Our old piano looks quite nice and new in this photo....

Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Lens:	Tamron 18-270mm
Submitted:	Friday, 27th February, 2009 12:32 (GMT)
Taken:	Monday, 2nd February, 2009
Focal length:	218 mm
Shutter speed:	1/50 sec
Aperture:	F7.1
ISO:	1600
Notes:	using natural light
Views:	169

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