Shutter Sisters

imperfect love

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Some are happy accidents, and some the reward of patient study. Others are entirely improper, theoretically speaking. But there’s a place in our photographic lives for satisfaction of all stripes.

Internal heckler: The foreground’s out of focus.

Creative voice: True, but…

Internal heckler: When am I ever going to learn to tighten up a couple of stops on the wide-open aperture? It’s not always appropriate.

Creative voice: Yeah, but…

…

Creative voice: Lemme run this through some processing anyway. See what I can make of it.

(ZING)

Internal heckler: Oh… a different skin. Look! They’re a crowd. They’ve gathered. It’s not just a blundered foreground. It’s a part of the story. It is their depth.

Creative voice: I could have told you that.

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Today, share with us a capture that is, technically, a bit of a photographic fumble — but that speaks to you, regardless. 

 

Comments

  16. Funny…I wouldn’t have even noticed the focus because the picture as a whole works so well…
    it’s beautiful.

    I’d say pretty much all of my shots fall outside of technically considered correct. I purposely shoot manually and always have to be able to over and underexpose based on my mood or the mood I’m trying to capture. I know there are many rules and I’ve learned them…i just don’t really want to communicate through the rules but rather around them and I don’t have an editing program to speak of so I have to get it the way I want it out of the camera which means breaking the rules, often.

    Here’s an example:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sufferingsummer/4336061727/

  18. That’s a fabulous image! Who cares about the rules. The more I’m out with my camera the more I "focus" on the art of what I see rather than the "photography" (if that makes any sense!) There is far too much to think about technically so when I’m in the moment, I go with it.

    The first image on this post is completely out of focus, but it’s my favorite one from that morning. When I clicked the shutter I knew it would be out of focus, too.
    http://www.whimsicalyearsphotography.com/blog/

  22. oh, this is the best post!

    as a very-aware-that-i-am-amateur photographer, i feel this way about most my photos. but right now, i focus less on taking good pictures {until i get more training or practice} and more on picking out the photos that speak to me or move me of the ones i do take. i know most of my shots are far from perfect — technically or otherwise. but i do try to be artistic in the ones i choose to post. or what i do with them.

    here is one i’m sure could have been more effective if i knew what i was doing. but i still liked it.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28567264@N05/4314852013/

    and yours is a lovely photo, by the way.