Digital photography

Had an idea about making fake depth of field using photoshop. Its a bit like the tilt/shift effect but without a focal plane - its selective.

Used layer mask and brush tool, feathered the left hand side a bit and applied gaussian blur. Pretty weird look.

Love that look, interesting when you compare it to results from a Leica noctilux. The blur/bokeh you have there is far more controlled without coma. Looks a bit like a fast version of a 50 1.4. i.e. smother bokeh but shallower depth of field. In fact the depth of field is quite large but the out of focus areas are blurred like f1.0 or less.