I usually shoot with my RICOH GR II in program mode and ISO 1600. Kyoto Uji, 2018Īnother tip: shoot at night while walking. Shoot at night, while walking Red wall, Cindy walking. More examples from London: Abstract London bokeh, 2018Īn example of shaking my camera while shooting: Shaking and Blurred London skyline, 2018Ģ. Experiment with different focusing distances, and shooting at night or during the day, to change the effect.īright out of focus lights. Now the photograph has more emotion from the lights, which are bigger, and more abstract.Īssignment: Shoot buildings or lights at night with your focus prefocused to 1 meter. Then while holding the focus set to 1 meter, I pointed my camera up, and shot the building out of focus, thus making this photo, which is more interesting: Out of focus bokeh lights in skyscraper building. What I then did was set my RICOH GR II to macro mode, and focused on my hand. When it is in focus, the photo is a bit boring.ī. For example, this is a photo I shot of a building at night with -1 exposure compensation on RICOH GR II in program mode: Osaka building
#PHOTO FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY MANUAL#
If you have a manual setting on your lens, intentionally make your photos out of focus, to heighten the emotion, mood, or mystery of your scene.Ī. Some tips to shoot better blurry and out of focus photos: 1. You can shoot more spontaneously, like a child.You don’t need expensive camera equipment, or sharp lenses.As photographers we must seek to capture an emotion, rather than make “technically perfect” photos for the sake of it.
“Sharpness is a bourgeoise concept.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson What is the point of photography? Henri Cartier-Bresson / HCB Foundation. But the abstract, impressionist painters rejected this tyranny of photorealistic paintings, and decided to paint an emotion or mood instead. The purpose of art is to provoke an emotional response, not to be formally perfect.įor example in the past, painting was all about creating photorealistic scenes. If you consider abstract art, the lesson is this: Some photos by William Klein which better highlight human emotion through his use of blur: William Klein: Candy Store William Klein dancing kidsĮmotional photos by Daido Moriyama, through his blurry, out of focus, and imperfect photos: Daido Moriyama Daido Dog Daido Moriyama, ‘Provoke’ no 2, 1969 What I learned from the impressionists Van Gogh video installation. The biggest innovation of photographers such as William Klein and Daido Moriyama was rejecting this notion that photos had to be sharp and in focus. If you want more inspiration to shoot, intentionally shoot blurry and out of focus photos.įighting back against the tyranny of sharp and in-focus photos William Klein / St Patrick’s
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