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05/29/2013 11:01:47 AM · #1
Originally posted by main page:

Missed Focus III · Advanced Editing
In some cases, having your subject be out of focus is desirable. Take a photo in which your main subject, at least, is out of focus. Other parts of your image may or may not be in focus.


Lets see some really bad images here folks! I'm talking about the stuff that'll make you cringe on YANAP - focus in on the coke bottle in front of the glamour model, the ugly flower behind the pretty one.... don't just make a pretty picture that's out of focus, this is about "missing the focus", not some picturesque "sunset over the valley landscape" with a blurry object in the foreground that takes up 5% of the scene - that's cheating by putting something that people who don't pay attention will still give good marks to for being pretty.

Think outside the box, HAVE FUN with this challenge, how often are you told "take a picture where the focus is wrong"?

We've lost many great members from this site because a lot of people are getting stuffy and not having fun with their images. There is NO ACTUAL PRIZE, so drop the elitist attitude and take some pictures that are "bad on purpose".

Thank you,

The Self-appointed think-outside-the-box Police. ;)
05/29/2013 11:04:48 AM · #2
As long as the images are missed focus and not razor-sharp, in-focus motion blur.
05/29/2013 11:27:26 AM · #3
Yes. My score remains the same whether I'm having fun or not. So I may as well have fun. It's impossible to know what the correct missed focus is anyway, as long as it doesn't rely on motion blur, or lensbaby, or bubble wrap. It has to be true, missed focus. As in put your lens on M & miss your focus. Oh wait I'm not having fun again.
05/29/2013 12:15:08 PM · #4
Sometime, I like to take OOF shot. I have no idea will it work for this challenge?
05/29/2013 12:35:34 PM · #5
In case it is helpful:
Results for Missed Focus
Results for Missed Focus II
05/29/2013 02:03:38 PM · #6
Originally posted by alexlky:

Sometime, I like to take OOF shot. I have no idea will it work for this challenge?


yeah, i think that'd work.
06/02/2013 11:53:10 PM · #7
How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?
06/03/2013 11:40:43 PM · #8
Originally posted by mariahdc:

How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?


bump
06/04/2013 12:09:49 AM · #9
Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by mariahdc:

How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?


bump

Why not? The challenge description doesn't exclude that approach...
06/04/2013 08:30:44 AM · #10
Thats what I was afraid of my bad image.. I havent done this in a long time processing it in gimp is scaring me...
06/04/2013 01:50:04 PM · #11
Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by mariahdc:

How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?


bump


while not excluded, i think it misses the "spirit" of the challenge. at least using a shallow DOF and intentionally/manually focusing on something besides the the "subject" should be encouraged as a starting point... then refine the effect in pp.

-m
06/04/2013 03:17:08 PM · #12
I just dumped all my images I took for this challenge in the trash. All off them yucky and badly out of focus.


Message edited by author 2013-06-04 17:52:28.
06/04/2013 03:39:30 PM · #13
Originally posted by mefnj:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by mariahdc:

How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?


bump


while not excluded, i think it misses the "spirit" of the challenge. at least using a shallow DOF and intentionally/manually focusing on something besides the the "subject" should be encouraged as a starting point... then refine the effect in pp.

-m


I agree. Anyone can apply Gaussian Blur in post processing. But it's much more of a challenge to get this type of photo while pressing the shutter.

I would think it would be more fun too :)
06/04/2013 04:07:08 PM · #14
Originally posted by giantmike:

Originally posted by mefnj:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by mariahdc:

How about some sort of blurred effect in post-processing?


bump


while not excluded, i think it misses the "spirit" of the challenge. at least using a shallow DOF and intentionally/manually focusing on something besides the the "subject" should be encouraged as a starting point... then refine the effect in pp.

-m


I agree. Anyone can apply Gaussian Blur in post processing. But it's much more of a challenge to get this type of photo while pressing the shutter.

I would think it would be more fun too :)

I don't quite understand this attitude. Sure, if the description SAID to do it in-camera then there'd be a "spirit" of the thing, but it doesn't. And anyway, if that's what was wanted why isn't it minimal editing? Certainly, the P&S camp, the 4/3 camp also, would have to do a bit of contorting to get this focus drop noticeable enough, in-camera, to satisfy the voters. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there's a lot of fascinating things you can do in post to accomplish this challenge, and if I'm being honest I think THAT approach is every bit as "pure" and certainly (for me) more fun.

Your mileage may vary, but c'mon... I guess if you want to be consistent you should also rule out Lensbaby work? Me, I just go by results. If I like the image and it spreads the focus around in a way that seems challenge-apt, well then I'm fine with that :-)
06/04/2013 04:33:55 PM · #15
Maybe it's just different preferences Bear.

For me, it's so much more fun to try to see the world in a different way for a week. What does the world look like if you focus on something different than you normally would? That's cool.

Taking a perfectly focused scene and making it unfocused afterwards, just doesn't appeal to me.

To each his own :)
06/04/2013 04:40:33 PM · #16
LOL....yeah right.

Originally posted by RyanW:

Originally posted by main page:

Missed Focus III · Advanced Editing
In some cases, having your subject be out of focus is desirable. Take a photo in which your main subject, at least, is out of focus. Other parts of your image may or may not be in focus.


Lets see some really bad images here folks! I'm talking about the stuff that'll make you cringe on YANAP - focus in on the coke bottle in front of the glamour model, the ugly flower behind the pretty one.... don't just make a pretty picture that's out of focus, this is about "missing the focus", not some picturesque "sunset over the valley landscape" with a blurry object in the foreground that takes up 5% of the scene - that's cheating by putting something that people who don't pay attention will still give good marks to for being pretty.

Think outside the box, HAVE FUN with this challenge, how often are you told "take a picture where the focus is wrong"?

We've lost many great members from this site because a lot of people are getting stuffy and not having fun with their images. There is NO ACTUAL PRIZE, so drop the elitist attitude and take some pictures that are "bad on purpose".

Thank you,

The Self-appointed think-outside-the-box Police. ;)
06/04/2013 04:51:23 PM · #17
I'm kind of between Mike and Robert. Took my challenge shots (haven't decided on one yet) with the topic in mind and it was definitely fun to do so. But I also enhanced the results in post processing, more on some than on others, and it was fun to explore ways to do that effectively (IMO, of course - will probably bomb), too.
06/04/2013 10:28:48 PM · #18
It's been a cool PP night for this challenge. I ended up with one I would have normally thrown out... Can't wait to see how low it scores. ;)
06/05/2013 07:19:07 PM · #19
At a 3.9 after hovering at 6 for quite a while. Clearly an in focus and an out of focus component in the image. This might just make the brown.
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