The thought was that by doing/limiting the work in camera, it would force someone to actually look beyond pointing and shooting in a normal fashion.....

Personally I have nothing against PS or any other program, and I certainly don't restrict myself from using it....

But.... my thinking on this is it is far more of a challenge to try and create soft focus within the camera rather than clicking the blur button afterwards....

Also if you are out taking pics with the digi there's no reason why you couldn't shoot both? Shoot what you want in sharp focus and then play around a bit with creating dreamy images using only the lens focusing....?

That's the whole point (at least I think) of what these challenges ought to be... using the camera creatively....

You said...will we then get into "B&W but only B&W from the camera"? or "Film, no digital"? If so I am screwed.

smile No.... you sound like you're worrying over this, but rest assured I wouldn't want it to be like that either...and I don't think those sort of restrictions would be fair.

But everyone who hangs out here and posts images has a camera, and anyone can do soft focus... you don't filters in front of your lens and you don't need to do it in photoshop.... It is however more challenging to try using your camera to do it.... which was what I was going after...

Here's an example of an image I took.... no prize winner for sure, but this was done strictly in camera, no filters on the lens, no PS.... soft focus, blurry on purpose. My point in doing this was to make the viewer focus on the prisms of light reflecting in the wine and on the glass, so I purposely threw the glass out of focus to draw attention to what I wanted the viewer to see.... the light.

Message edited on: 05/27/2004 18:35

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