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Re-create bokeh with frischluft's Lenscare

Re-create bokeh with frischluft's Lenscare - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Re-create bokeh with frischluft's Lenscare

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Let's look at an alternative to camera lens blur. The Frischluft effects, depth of field, and out of focus, recreate the same effects that you can get in Camera Lens Blur. Here, I've created an extreme amount of Bokeh with Camera Lens Blur. And with a similar setting in Frischluft, I get a pretty similar result. I would dare you to choose one or the other and pick which is which. Before I go further into this, I do want to show you, though, when you're creating this type of extreme Bokeh and you're starting with low-dynamic range footage, as most of you will, I have footage from my DSLR, and I can tell you that the actual defocus looks completely different. So this is the same street corner. That's it with the focus lens, then defocused in Post, and this is an actual defocus. If we look at other examples we can see this literally pedestrian image here is transformed into something super magical, even if the actual pedestrians disappear. Here, we have a regular street scene. And it's…

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