Posts Tagged ‘blur’

out-of-focus #14

of course i had to get an out-of-focus shot from my fire escape… :) see more photos in the post below!

my photo walk the other day wasn’t too far. i just crawled out my living room window onto my fire escape. the rain had come and gone, but the clouds still hung overhead, making me too nervous to go on a real photo walk (for fear of getting my camera soaked with raindrops).

out-of-focus #12

walked the brooklyn bridge tonight and got so many out-of-focus photos. i cannot wait to share. some are very pixel-y because it got dark, but i’ll see what i can do to process them despite it!

out-of-focus #11

i like the way this photo makes me almost think it was taken with a more vintage camera. it is almost out-of-focus enough to make me believe it… i think this is one of my favorite photos right now.

out-of-focus #11

i don’t dream of a white picket fence. instead, i dream of a beautiful, black (a touch of rust is fine), wrought iron fence. this brings me home.

out-of-focus #6

i love the sidewalks in my neighborhood. every 20 feet or so, a tree is growing and around that tree, a passerby may have the pleasure of seeing a small but beautiful bit of nature growing. this is a sidewalk garden with purple beauties. on the bottom of the photo you can see the blurred wrought iron fence that protects it.

this is my first photo project that i’ve started inspired by a photo i took. i am only on photo 6, but i am already loving where this has gone and looking forward to where this will go next. and since the project was started, i’ve seen other wonderful out-of-focus photos. georgia and i were on the same thought path because when i posted my project and she was sharing blur she’d captured. i love moments when people connect thoughts by magic across the universe. and then elk posted her out-of-focus inspiration through her post embrace the blur. and the always inspiring mrs. e shared a blurry photo that she couldn’t bring herself to delete, describing these out-of-focus treasures to be much like memories… and shared her beautiful words, blur happens! sometimes i’m grateful for that.

out-of-focus #5

spent this evening experimenting. i think i’m in love with photoshop, even when it frustrates me to no end (with all the endless and unknown possibilities…). as i’ve mentioned before, i really don’t know what i’m doing. i really don’t understand what everything even means. i have no idea what i’m getting right or completely ruining. i also have trouble remembering what i’ve done to a photo to make it look as it does from one time to the next!

but… i love, love, love vintage feeling photos like the ones above. it’s a kind of art that i want to create… and someday, hopefully soon, i’ll have a better understanding of how to create it with a few slides and clicks of the mouse in photoshop.

what inspired me tonight? clicking through flickr, i was thinking about all the wonderful photos collected there. i clicked to my favorites and noticed the overall feel was the lighter, vintage, worn colors. (click to see for yourself.) i cannot get enough of all these photos… the pinks and whites of this one… the faded lines and softness of this photo… the feeling and pinks and greens in this photo… and the blues of this photo fill me with wishes for the same beauty in the photos i create. so i again opened a the viewer to find some photos to feed my desires of creating… so tell me, what do you think? are there any colors off? colors on? are the photos too light? too processed? any photos you suggest i add to my collection of favorites?

out-of-focus #3

this one i did not mean to get. my lens cannot focus too close, so instead of disappointment, here is my next out-of-focus photo.

One photo out-of-focus is a mistake, ten photos out-of-focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out-of-focus are a style.

-Author Unknown

i begin my first photo project today. the photo came first, a blur on purpose or maybe not. but the result i loved. so i kept it. and now, adding it with the words above, i’m starting the photo project of collecting 100 out-of-focus photos. feel free to collect photos that are out-of-focus along with me.