Is it?, well photography has a trend to be categoric. Film yes, digital no for instance, but when you need detail to know what something actually looks like, fuzziness doesn't help
i just watched Red Riding: 1974, I think a brilliant 2010 movie, the first in a child serial killer trilogy. Grim, but brilliant in large part because of the work by Rob Hardy, the cinemetographer. he constantly moved focal points, close-ups always off-crop. He never allowed me to settle in comfortably to any certain idea of where the truth was leading. Exactly to your brilliant point, the closer you get, the blurrier things become.
Blur is the more natural state of things. Things are blurry before they are clear. And in our dealing with things, we rush to make things artificially clear...which creates a blur that would not exist if we would simply deal with the more natural blur in the first place.
Love this one!
Thank you, Caroline!
Well said, Alex! Love it and your photos as well!
Thank you, Susanne!
I think fuzzy hast its times and sharpness also its own ones.
I agree. But since the world is fuzzy now, our perception of it couldn't be clear.
Is it?, well photography has a trend to be categoric. Film yes, digital no for instance, but when you need detail to know what something actually looks like, fuzziness doesn't help
Great essay Alex. And blurriness has been my tour de force for a while. Just ask my wife.
Thanks so much, Yog. Blurriness rules. And yes, your wife has already told me about your penchant for blurriness a while back.
Very nice! Reminded me of lyrics in one of my favorite songs:
Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8&pp=ygUbZGlhbW9uZHMgYW5kIHJ1c3Qgam9hbiBiYWV6
Thank you, sir. I love this song too. In several interviews she's denied that it's about Dylan. But it's like me denying that I'm short and ugly.
Nice read Alex!
i just watched Red Riding: 1974, I think a brilliant 2010 movie, the first in a child serial killer trilogy. Grim, but brilliant in large part because of the work by Rob Hardy, the cinemetographer. he constantly moved focal points, close-ups always off-crop. He never allowed me to settle in comfortably to any certain idea of where the truth was leading. Exactly to your brilliant point, the closer you get, the blurrier things become.
Thank you, Clem! I'll see you on the mat!
https://www.framingthestory.com/p/the-year-in-review-lessons-from-students
I've had the very same thoughts just this week.
Blur is the more natural state of things. Things are blurry before they are clear. And in our dealing with things, we rush to make things artificially clear...which creates a blur that would not exist if we would simply deal with the more natural blur in the first place.
Love this!
Beautifully put, Joe! Thanks for your comment.
Well said. This is how we see. Nicely done.
Thank you, Soren!