leo burkey

Very well done. The touches of blue and the black background just makes it stand out.

Regards Leo Burkey

The DOF was all done with Photoshop and the Gaussian Blur filter. I used a mask to bring back into focus the parts that I wanted in focus. Thanks for the comment and taking the time to look at the photo.Double the link below to see the original.

Leo

The first thing that I did was duplicated the background layer and to that layer added a radial blur filter. I used the zoom feature of this filter and a value of about 60.This of course blurred the whole photo; so I added and mask to this layer and by using a soft edged brush I painted black on the layer mask where I didn't want the blur( the heart shaped center).Black blocks the filter in any area you want to be sharp. I then added three gradient layers, using black to transparent gradient. You get this by making black your foreground color and choosing the Foreground to Transparent gradient.The first layer I darken from bottom up to about 1/3, then the same for the right side of the photo and lastly the top left hand corner. I then adjusted the amount of darkening with the opacity slider for each of the layers. Next I used a curves layer to increase the contrast; this is done with a typical s curve. Finally a Hue Saturation layer to intensify the colors.

To see the original raw file double click on the link below.

All comments are greatly appreciated. If anyone has interest in the

Photoshop process I will gladly share.