Don’t panic- these photos are supposed to be blurry!
I LOVED today’s assignment- deliberate blur abstract. I’ve played with this a bit before with intentional camera movement, my exploding Christmas tree, and photos where only a small slice of the image is in focus (some of my chrysanthemum shots from a week or so ago). But some of the people in the group are APPALLED! It’s funny! As photographers, much of our focus is on, well. . . FOCUS! Achieving sharp focus isn’t always easy- and to deliberately throw it away- oy vey!
But I like to explore the artistic as well as the technical side of photography- and creating a pleasing image that is out of focus is almost harder than an in focus one. I like the impressionistic feel of many deliberately blurry photos- and there are many beautiful ones out there (with much more creative subjects than my flowers). I want to try this some more when I have more time.
Oh- the top photo is of geraniums and the bottom is my chrysanthemums again.
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Great shots! We both had the same reaction to the people in the group who were so freaked out by the assignment. I started to write you an e-mail about it this morning but got sidetracked. These are really nice abstracts and they’ve got lots of bokeh. Colors and composition are both really nice.
Pretty color. These look like what I get when I’m trying to get a macro shot in focus LOL!
IT’S MONET !!!!!! Saw some of them in Russia…..I actually like them…….