Doug Boutwell » f zero http://www.dougboutwell.com the occasional odd thought or image Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:18:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fake Front Swings And Tilts With f/zero http://www.dougboutwell.com/fake-front-swings-and-tilts-with-fzero/ http://www.dougboutwell.com/fake-front-swings-and-tilts-with-fzero/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:39:19 +0000 Doug Boutwell http://gettotallyrad.com/dougboutwell/?p=85 So here’s another video tutorial I’ve been busy working on, this time on the very confusing f/zero family of actions from TRA2 – The Revenge.  f/zero was so named for two reasons – one, it’s meant to give you a set of tools to isolate your subject using selective focus… if f/1.2 makes everything but the subject go to mush, then f/0.0 must be infinitely better, right?  Second, I always liked the old SNES game by the same name:

Anyway, I hope I don’t get sued over the comparison, because I was pretty fond of the name for the action.  Basically, this video shows you how to quickly emulate the look of lens tilts and swings (or the use of a t/s or PC lens, if you have never had the pleasure of using the real thing) to accomplish a reasonable fake of selective defocus using those tools.

So for everyone out there wondering what the heck those actions were for and how they’re used… this one’s for you!

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