Make your own photos in the style of Lytro

Certainly one of the disappointments of 2012 was the Lytro camera. Great concept turned out not so convenient in life. Many owners of this unique camera complain that it is quite difficult to get spectacular photos. If you do not know what the chip of this camera is, you can look at these two reviews . In short, you can select the desired sharpness in a photo for certain areas. Thanks to the efforts of the guys from The Chaos Collective, now anyone can make photos in the style of Lytro!



The principle of operation is quite simple. We must shoot the video and change the sharpness. Then we upload videos to the site, and the algorithm processes your video and delivers the finished result.
Procedure:

1) Take a camera that has manual focus for shooting video.
2) Choose the correct position so that everything enters the frame.
3) Use a tripod or try not to shake the camera.
4) For the best effect, set the minimum F value of the aperture.
5) Unscrew the focus completely and start recording.
6) Slowly change the focus while recording.
7) Stop recording and upload it to the computer.
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The video must be in a format that supports HTML5. I just uploaded the video from the camera to Youtube, and then downloaded it through kissyoutube.
That's what happened with me, though the lighting is bad.



And here is the processed picture, click with the mouse on the part of the photo you want to get in focus.

dof.chaoscollective.org/dof/1uf8rc4af4ghg (failed to embed)





Read a little more and try to make your picture on the page dof.chaoscollective.org
I suggest in the comments is divided by the result.