The digital sandwich works beautifully for nature photography. In this video, professional photographer Tony Sweet takes you to Magnolia Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina to capture a classic photograph. You will learn how to create a soft-focus image through defocusing and also how to assemble a digital sandwich in editing.
Tony shoots a stand of cypress trees framing an old gazebo. Then, he defocuses the lens and repeats the shot. In editing, he will merge the sharp image with the out-of-focus image to create a soft-focus effect. Later, in post-production, he demonstrates how to create a digital sandwich of the original image through Photoshop layering.
See all of the videos in our Visual Artistry Course:
- Visual Artistry—Course Preview
- Using Long Exposure to Photograph Water
- HDR Photography: Capturing a Water Scene
- Close-Up Photography: Capturing the Details of Shells
- Photographing Scenery with Multiple Exposures
- Black and White Conversion
- Capturing the Beauty of Downtown Charleston
- Infrared Photography: Tips on Shooting and Editing
- How to Mirror an Image Using Photoshop
- How to Photomerge to Create a Panoramic Image
- Creating a Digital Sandwich
- Capturing Unique Shots in Drayton Cellar
- Capturing HDR Images at Drayton
- Capturing and Editing Infrared Images
- Mirroring Images at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Charleston Gallery
- Drayton Hall: Stitching and Merging Photos
- Assembling a Digital Sandwich at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Trees with Multiple Exposures
