From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Portraits of Two Texas Artists

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Focus and blur

Focus and blur

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Portraits of Two Texas Artists

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Focus and blur

One of the best ways to get good at photography is to practice and experiment on your own, so I have some assignments for you, some assignments which will help you integrate some of the concepts and ideas that you've discovered in this course into your own workflow. The first assignment is called Blur and the Passage of Time. Throughout the history of photography, there are different things that have come into fashion or out of fashion and currently in modern photography, it's really popular to create images which are crystal clear, which are incredibly sharp. But what I want you to do in this assignment is to do something completely different. I want you to embrace blur, and here's why. Human vision, we often see things in a way that is lucid and completely clear and other times our vision is blurry. Now, why is that? Well, there are a number of reasons. Perhaps we're in love and we don't quite see clearly, or maybe our eyes are filled with tears of sadness and we can't see straight.…

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