Digital Outback Photo has published another excellent article by Glenn E. Mitchell II which looks at using the Lens Blur filter in Adobe Photoshop CS.

“I do a lot of botanical and nature photography, so I constantly wrestle with getting just enough DOF to blur the background without losing sharpness at the tips of flower petals or on stamens projecting out towards the camera on long antlers. Sometimes I get the shot. Sometimes I wind up with less DOF that I would have preferred. I usually hedge my bet by bracketing my shots.

The Lens Blur filter changes all that. I can shoot for wider DOF to make sure I get all of the flower details in focus and then narrow the DOF once I get the image loaded into Photoshop CS.”

Website: Digital Outback Photo - Taking Control Over Depth Of Field