During my penultimate tutorial with Phillip Vaughan, prior to next weeks final assessment, Phil suggested that I put a blur over the left hand stalk of the shoot.
Whilst the perspective works well, the mass and colour of the stalk on the left hand side is overpowering within the composition.
I anticipated adjusting the Zdefocus settings and image plane set up in Nuke and then re-rendering.
However, I followed the tutorial below and have applied a simple 'tilt shift' technique in After Effects...I've adapted the effect by rotating it by 90 degrees, so my tilt shift creates a substantial blur, just on the area that I wish to have out of focus...I also omitted to apply an 'invert' command to the adjustment layer mask, as I wanted the blur to be inside my rectangular mask, rather than outside - as per a usual tilt shift effect.
Below: shot_18 before tilt shift blur
