To blur or not to blur

A friend of mine detests blurry images. Some of my favorites he dismisses as “not sharp.” We all have strong and different reactions to image rendition, and that’s good!

Here I share last night’s blurry images that I like because of the blur (they’re blurred in part because I shot with the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, which just can’t function in low light as well as the Nikon D3!). Check your premises about depth of field and ask yourself whether these images would improve by being sharp throughout the frame: would the mental imagery induced by viewing them sharpen or blur?

Donkey Duo
(All images: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III + Leica 90mm f/2 APO-Summicron-R ASPH)

Fuzzball

Dry Up

Green Grounds

Play Time