{"id":1863,"date":"2011-10-11T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-10-11\/1863"},"modified":"2011-10-11T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:22:28","slug":"haphazard-and-defocused-evasive-lesson-in-photographic-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-10-11\/1863","title":{"rendered":"Haphazard and Defocused: Elusive Lesson in Photographic Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n
Vertical Desktop-Background Versions<\/b>\n\n\n1050×<\/span>1680<\/a>  ·  1200×<\/span>1920<\/a>  ·  1600×<\/span>2560<\/a><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Looking over photos from the Ikebana show<\/a> I mentioned<\/span>\nyesterday, I came across<\/span> this shot with not a single<\/span> thing in focus, but\nsomehow I really<\/span> like its mood. The closest<\/span> edge is the least out of focus,\nbut everything being out of focus makes the whole thing seem dreamy. I tend to<\/span> be partial to the “sliver of focus” effect (as seen here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>), but this\ntakes it even further by having the “in focus” part not even in\nfocus. It's almost<\/span> like a painting.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

This has only a little post processing, in Lightroom. I set the<\/span> white\nbalance, adjusting the exposure and blacks, and tweaked the crop, but\notherwise it's “as loaded”. In particular, this doesn't use any\n“negative clarity” in Lightroom, as described in “Funky Joy With\nAdobe Lightroom<\/a>” and used, for example, in the first photo here<\/a>. All the creaminess<\/span>\nin this shot is directly from the Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm's delicious bokeh<\/a> and my\n dumb luck <\/strike> inspired skill in\ncomposition. <\/p>\n\n

With the way the edge comes close to focus but doesn't quite get there,\nand how it grabs your attention and leads it back to the defocused\nareas.... somehow I think<\/span> there's a deep<\/span> lesson in composition here, but\nI'm not able to put my finger on exactly what it is. In any case<\/span>, I really<\/span> like the shot and will probably frame a print<\/span> of it for my wall.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking over photos from the Ikebana show I mentioned yesterday, I came across this shot with not a single thing in focus, but somehow I really like its mood. The closest edge is the least out of focus, but everything being out of focus makes the whole thing seem dreamy. I tend to be partial to the \"sliver of focus\" effect (as seen here, here, here, and here), but this takes it even further by having the \"in focus\" part not even in focus. It's almost like a painting.<\/p>

This has only a little post processing, in Lightroom. I set [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,13,6,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}