{"id":4878,"date":"2015-01-28T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2024-02-29T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:14:44","slug":"fake-blurry-skies-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/fake-blurry-skies-2-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Fake Blurry Skies&#8230; in 2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>10 Stop Filters &#8211; All the Rage!<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got one, have you?<\/p>\n<p>Well no landscape or architecture photographer worth their salt goes out without one these days do they ? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>It is the current fad &#8211; that surreal sky, those misty sea shores&#8230; you simply have to use them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They are genuinely interesting to use, and I have on occasion used one commercially to make &#8220;people disappear&#8221; from photos.<\/p>\n<p>So looking back at this photo of Clarence Dock, which it was called then, I wondered what it would have looked like with a 10-stopper.<\/p>\n<h1>Photoshop Stuff&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a very quick, purposely quick and dirty, way you can do the blurred sky thing.<\/p>\n<p>It just uses&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selections<\/li>\n<li>Layers<\/li>\n<li>Filters<\/li>\n<li>Masks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simple stuff really &#8211; as you&#8217;ll see when you watch it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Photoshop tips - 10 Stop Look\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bRCtw7Pc04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>But what about the water?<\/h1>\n<p>Ten out of ten to Eva Pitt, who mentioned that the water should look different if it was a long exposure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/beginner-flash-photography-3-main-reasons-to-use-a-flash\/\" title=\"Beginner Flash Photography: 3 Main Reasons to Use A Flash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">main reason<\/a> for it not being smooth in this instance is time &#8211; the video was supposed to be 2 minutes, it went on to 4&#8230; didn&#8217;t have time<\/li>\n<li>having a smooth sky and choppy water is confusing &#8211; and confusion is a good thing, ask any NLP master<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve understood the theory of how to do the sky, you could apply it to the water &#8211; so that part would be superfluous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Stop Filters &#8211; All the Rage! 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