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09/16/2002 04:57:43 AM · #1 |
| I have already recieved a few comments about my shot being blurry... It's done intentionally. So, I pose a question: When did all photographs have to be in focus? I'm sure that other photographers on this site have submitted intentionally blurry shots... so what gives? |
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09/16/2002 05:11:53 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by SatelliteSpeck:
I have already recieved a few comments about my shot being blurry... It's done intentionally. So, I pose a question: When did all photographs have to be in focus? I'm sure that other photographers on this site have submitted intentionally blurry shots... so what gives?
I think it depends on the person. I do not like blurry shots, however intentional it might be. There are definitely times when parts of the shots are blurry, and sometimes that's understandable from the DOF approach. There is a difference I think between "soft", and blurry. They both are kinda the same thing but to different degrees. I'm now a veteran of one challenge, and am now getting hammered on my second. So take that into account when reviewing this. I am hearing it in my comments about too dark and too blurry. I don't think it is, but I'm not voting for me either. I don't know if there is a too blurry "rule" in photography. But for me personally, I don't care for it. And that's all I have to say about that one.
Inspzil
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09/16/2002 05:20:45 AM · #3 |
On the whole I agree with Inspzil.
I don't tend to personally find very blurry shots appealing. As well as considering technical achievement , meeting the challenge and originality my vote also takes into account how much I actually like the shot. It's a personal thing.
And just because it's intentional doesn't mean I like it any more than if it had been accidental.
That said, there is at least one shot in the current challenge which is blurry and which I like, so it's not a hard and fast rule.
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09/16/2002 05:48:04 AM · #4 |
| For me, there is a difference between "blurry" and "soft focus". I have seen some soft focus shots in challenges that I rated quite favorably, however, most "blurry" photos - especially ones where I can't even make out what the subject is, do not appeal to me, for the most part. |
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09/16/2002 05:53:47 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by SatelliteSpeck:
I have already recieved a few comments about my shot being blurry... It's done intentionally. So, I pose a question: When did all photographs have to be in focus? I'm sure that other photographers on this site have submitted intentionally blurry shots... so what gives?
There's nothing wrong with an intentionally blurry shot. The voter will decide if the blur adds to the image when they score it. When I see blurry or out of focus photos, I always attempt to interpret it as intentional...
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09/16/2002 06:03:30 PM · #6 |
Well I haven't given you any feedback... and I don't know which image you did. But there are a good 13 shots or more in this recent Negative Space batch that are blurry and it looks like accidents.
You may have done a good job of it, again I don't know what shot you did... but when you are trying to do a purposeful mistake sometimes you need to overcompensate to make sure it seems that it was done on purpose and not an accident.
Originally posted by SatelliteSpeck:
I have already recieved a few comments about my shot being blurry... It's done intentionally. So, I pose a question: When did all photographs have to be in focus? I'm sure that other photographers on this site have submitted intentionally blurry shots... so what gives?
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