Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by Catherine_B:
I know you were going for a surreal image, but this one hurts my eyes as they keep trying to focus the image.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by Artifacts:
Composition, framing and the idea is OK.

Your attempt to use blur to simulate a fantasy world will not work well for most reviewers and this image will score poorly. It might have worked better if you could have taken your picture with a longer exposure time on a tripod to have most everything but the natural movement of the people and trees be sharp and clear. Your idea just did not work. Sorry.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by CEJ:
I just didn't see 'Dreams'...I saw poor photo. Very hard to look at.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by p2jvr:
The poor focus spoils this for me - If I miss the point I apologise

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by skief:
I'm guessing that you did the blurriness of the photo to try to fit it into the challenge of being another world. However, it just doesn't work. I'm betting that this photo with the family strolling down the road, if it was to the left just a little, and in focus would be really good for the leading lines theme. Sorry.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by Tycho:
To get the impressionist effect, instead of camera shake, you can also try defocusing the lens with a large aperture setting (If your equipment allows manual focusing, that is). This technique, in my opinion, produces a much more effective "impression", although it takes a bit of practice, since if you don't defocus enough, it's just a blurry picture, and if you defocus too much, there's no impression left. Additionally, overcast weather is usually better for woodland pictures. On sunny days like this -particularly when the sun is high up in the sky-, the contrast range becomes quite difficult, if not downright impossible, to cope with. Shooting into the sun very early in the morning is another technique for producing dream-like woodland images.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by CreativeFlyPhoto:
i like the concept - but the filter may be a little too much .. it's kinda hard on my eyes to look at and enjoy ... but that's just my opinion

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by Kelliloo:
May have been better without people on it.and alittle less blurry.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by Evaan:
This is a bit TOO much out of focus to be "dreamy" to me. It's hard to look at, and hurts the eyes.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment by HighwayFlower:
Very blurry.