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After seeing this link via digg.com, I decided to try my hand at the technique with an archive photo that could use a little sprucing up. The original of course had full depth of field. This photo could obviously benefit from cropping but I chose to show the original size to highlight the DOF effect. I could increase the lens blur but it started to give a kind of Viewmaster effect I didn’t like.

Unfortunately all of the photos taken on our ’02 Hit ‘n Run European Tour suffered from my lack of digital photo knowledge. I never set the resolution so the default web settings (72dpi, 1280×960) were used. Also, my plan to upload images to the web to free up room on my puny memory card were foiled by a lack of resources in Europe and my kit bag. I ended up being real stingy with the number of photos taken to save for the next city and the next city and so on. As a result our last city visited, Rome, had the most photos which was still far too few. I guess we’ll just have to go back.