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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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Camera:	Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2
Lens:	closeup lens cl49
Submitted:	Sunday, 1st March, 2009 19:48 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 5th August, 2005
Focal length:	50.8 mm
Shutter speed:	1/250 sec
Aperture:	F3.5
ISO:	64
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