[WEC] 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship

[JoestForEver]

Originally Posted by Pontlieue

Motorsport-total has an ontrack picture:

A true beauty, but I'm confused with the blurred part above in the woods and below the Armco. Is it because of camera focus or it's some sort of Photoshop-ish maneuver by Kodewa? (Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as everyone, if not more than, to see the car on track, but the pic just feels unnatural, weird.)

[TheMightyM]

Originally Posted by JoestForEver

A true beauty, but I'm confused with the blurred part above in the woods and below the Armco. Is it because of camera focus or it's some sort of Photoshop-ish maneuver by Kodewa? (Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as everyone, if not more than, to see the car on track, but the pic just feels unnatural, weird.)

It's a Photoshop effect, designed to highlight the car against the background by limiting the depth of field when everything in the picture as taken was in focus. The image is curious in another way — a picture with the action (the car) occupying such a small portion of the image isn’t ordinarily considered particularly good photography. Surely the photog had a longer lens available -- so I suspect the image was chosen exactly because it was small and thus lacked detail of the car.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by JoestForEver

A true beauty, but I'm confused with the blurred part above in the woods and below the Armco. Is it because of camera focus or it's some sort of Photoshop-ish maneuver by Kodewa? (Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as everyone, if not more than, to see the car on track, but the pic just feels unnatural, weird.)

That does appear a bit strange....but could it just be a post processing technique to blur the background and foreground, that was done poorly. Hence it comes on in a straight line? Maybe somebody with photography or photoshop skills could answer better.

[NelisB]

Originally Posted by joeb

That does appear a bit strange....but could it just be a post processing technique to blur the background and foreground, that was done poorly. Hence it comes on in a straight line? Maybe somebody with photography or photoshop skills could answer better.

Going by the picture quality I'd say it has been taken off a video.

[Starfish Primer]

Originally Posted by JoestForEver

A true beauty, but I'm confused with the blurred part above in the woods and below the Armco. Is it because of camera focus or it's some sort of Photoshop-ish maneuver by Kodewa? (Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as everyone, if not more than, to see the car on track, but the pic just feels unnatural, weird.)

They´ve put a crude blur filter band. You can do it with many free tools (google plus, iPhoto...)