I suspect I'm not alone in that I spent a good portion of my developing time in photography in constant pursuit of sharpness. However, the more comfortable I've gotten with my ability to produce technically "correct" images, the less of a paramount concern sharpness is to me. Don't get me wrong: I still love a good crisp photo and typically do all I can to ensure the closest I can come to technical perfection. However, long gone are the days where I'd summarily delete images where the focus or shutter speed had softened up a shot...
The bottom line for me is that you can have a technically perfect but entirely sterile image that is far less desirable than an interesting image with "character." Sometimes the flaws can actually improve the photo. Peruse any book from a truly great photographer, and you'll find countless images that would be panned on a forum like this for not meeting this technical standard or that. Here's a humorous post illustrating this point:
The 2 beautiful photos above should be a lesson to many.
Don't delete fuzzy, OOF, blurry photos cos you might have a caught one of they special moments without knowing (or you might know what you are doing!).
Great post as always Evan.
BKphotography wrote:
The 2 beautiful photos above should be a lesson to many.
Don't delete fuzzy, OOF, blurry photos cos you might have a caught one of they special moments without knowing (or you might know what you are doing!).
Great post as always Evan.
Cheers
BK
Or shoot some OOF on purpose for that matter... That was a great article by the way, it actually made me chuckle. Those are the kinds of responses you see from the brick wall shooters on gear forums... Open any copy of National Geographic and you'll see their photogs break the rules all the time (maybe even most of the time) and yet somehow their work is considered some of the best in the world. Shame on them .
Scott Clark wrote:
Or shoot some OOF on purpose for that matter... That was a great article by the way, it actually made me chuckle. Those are the kinds of responses you see from the brick wall shooters on gear forums... Open any copy of National Geographic and you'll see their photogs break the rules all the time (maybe even most of the time) and yet somehow their work is considered some of the best in the world. Shame on them .
Bride and groom at the entrance... Most of the shots during the walk in failed because the bride was in direct window light while the groom was in shade. This one happened to work but it came out blurred. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y100/teresaVigil/18-1.jpg
I love blurry photos with a lot of emotion. I just never like any of the ones I take? Wife says I am just to hard on myself. Anyone else have this problem?
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maybe later.