christian harkness

One of the 'photography things' that has always fascinated me, but that I have never really pursued much, is how photos look when they are out of focus. With film cameras there are a couple of ways of doing this. One can throw the subject out of focus when taking the picture, or one can change/ blur the focus when enlarging the negative. Given the same subject, the outcomes are different, and so it is with digital cameras.
An image that is defocused [thrown out of focus] while taking the picture will look totally different than one that is in focus to start with but then blurred in Photoshop.
Of course, blurring the image in the camera limits what can eventually be done with it. It can never be sharp and in focus again. Well, at present it can't. Sometime in the not too distant future there will be image manipulation software that can accomplish that too.
My digital Canon G10 let's me use manual focus and thus I am able to easily throw things out of focus when taking the picture. Here is an example of this.
I am becoming quite fascinated and attached to this way of seeing and photographing things - stay tuned & thanks for reading!

 

Tuesday I took down the work I had on display at the ‘Fire Ants Gallery”. The gallery is tucked away in the far corner of Tallahassee’s funky art quarter better known as ‘Railroad Square.’ Jonathan Markham runs the gallery and he invited me to show some of my work. The high point was the opening night which was on September’s ‘First Friday.’ There was a good crowd at the square and many of them came through Jonathan’s gallery, although it is so tucked away in a corner, that – with vans parked in front of it, it is hardly visible.

Taking down the work was actually pleasurable since the show had looked good. Alexandria had done a fantastic job of hanging it, and I had some of my favorite pieces up. In November I will probably be able to hang a few of my photos again. Looking forward to it. In the meantime, some of the work is going to go to Cedar Key, where a bunch of us have our work up in the dining room of the historic Island Hotel.