| Author | Thread |
|
|
10/26/2010 01:24:04 AM · #26 |
A good dose of blur can get the elements that make a photo work down to their simplest form. Blur is to sharpness what B&W is to color.
Blur was a four letter word here at DPC for a long time, until about the time that the "August Went By In a Blur" side challenge came along in 07.
Most of the photos are gone from that thread now. Here's a little quip from a post there.
"Originally posted by goodman:
DID YOU SEE THIS!!
blur gallery
don't forget to tag your photos! :))
Having the new blur gallery set up by the last day of the sharpless side challenge is an unexpected and very welcome present. We arrive at the official last day of a wonderful month-long party, only to discover that the celebration continues next door. Thanks for making it happen."
Here is one of my entries in that SC. Sometimes you just can't create an image the way you see it in your mind with any other tool.
Blur sells, look up "The Pond Moonlight" on Google.
Message edited by author 2010-10-26 01:32:10.
|
|
|
|
10/26/2010 08:08:54 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by sjhuls:
How do I judge a blurry or abstract photograph? |
Response: Like it so much I want to explode with joy. Score = 10.
Response: Completely unmoved. Score = 1.
Response: In between. Score = In between.
Edit to add: Blurry simply doesn't come into it. Just as technical 'perfection' doesn't.
Message edited by author 2010-10-26 08:11:56. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 12:28:27 AM · #28 |
Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand. From the movie Il Postino
same goes for abstract photography, i think |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 01:24:31 AM · #29 |
Wow. My head is un-hinge-ing . . .
|
|
|
|
11/05/2010 01:42:08 AM · #30 |
| Wonderful. Sometimes this place just gets cookin', |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 06:41:45 AM · #31 |
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein
"In the end it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation." Sacheverell Sitwell |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 10:59:46 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by whiteroom:
Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand. From the movie Il Postino
same goes for abstract photography, i think |
Thanks for sharing that. I completely agree with both you and the quote. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 12:29:44 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by whiteroom:
Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand. From the movie Il Postino
same goes for abstract photography, i think |
If you could explain a poem, you wouldn't need the poem, just the explanation. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 12:57:28 PM · #34 |
| How to judge a blurry photograph? There are no hard lines. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 01:18:38 PM · #35 |
| A good explanation IS a poem. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 01:31:08 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
How to judge a blurry photograph? There are no hard lines. |
groan...
|
|
|
|
11/05/2010 05:02:31 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by tnun:
A good explanation IS a poem. |
yes, perfect... you can only explain something you can't explain with something you can't explain.
|
|
|
|
11/05/2010 06:14:46 PM · #38 |
"Writing about art is like dancing about architecture."
To my mind the simple question is does the blur work. Does it create an emotional resonance?
Shots that are simply slightly out of focus rarely do for me. Ones that are wildly out of focus, where I'm not puzzled about intent, often do work for me. When art moves from documentary to abstract it moves from the rational to the emotional, so the reaction to a piece will become much more personal. |
|
|
|
11/05/2010 08:04:35 PM · #39 |
There is a lot of good advice here, but the best is that you try the different blur techniques yourself. It was only when I tried them that I understood that not everything blurry is a good picture, and that not all blurs are the same. and that there are many techniques to achieve certain types of blur. Generally speaking,  bspurgeon favors ND filters. Nixter favors high contrast and motion blur.  Ursula does something ethereal with colors. Etc.
Incidentally, fabulous question. |
|
|
|
11/06/2010 12:03:14 AM · #40 |
Originally posted by pointandshoot:
Originally posted by tnun:
A good explanation IS a poem. |
yes, perfect... you can only explain something you can't explain with something you can't explain. |
Mind reader, brother pointy. When I wrote that I was scratching my head for an example and all I could think of was the Native North American story of the world resting on a turtle resting on a turtle.... |
|
|
|
11/06/2010 02:42:38 AM · #41 |
I started to experiment with blur in August. I've literally just been experimenting a lot ever since I got the camera in early July. In this one outing, I saw a couple interesting bushes in a park and wanted to capture them both in an image, but there was no way to get them both in focus. The idea came up to take a ton of shots where I gradually adjusted the focus from one subject to the other. I'm not sure what I was expecting from it, but I was just trying something different. Several of the more blurry shots caught my interest, including this one:
Ever since then, I've had occasional impulses to try a little more of this blurry stuff. In some cases, I'm adjusting focus, and in others I'm moving the camera or slowing the shutter when shooting moving subjects, or any combination of these methods. Usually, I don't know what the heck I'm doing, but some of the shots are pretty fulfilling, and by playing like that, I'm starting to learn a little about what kinds of shutter speeds might be suitable for capturing different kinds/speeds of movement... at least what catches my own interest. |
|
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 08/05/2025 06:41:16 AM EDT.
