De-focusing to make it clear.
Well simplify, more than clarity. Photography can be so descriptive and we expect a to see a certain level of detail that we consider real. To paintings we apply a different standard of what is real, but what if we made photographs using the rules of painted reality? I would love to claim the idea as my own but I’m about 125 years too late. Pictorialism was a photographic movement that attempted to create images that were considered more artistic than the cold rendering photography provided. A lot has occurred in photography since this time but it can be a fun diversion to create images along these lines. All of these images where created by simply manipulating focus. I’ve taken things further as far as blur and of course these images are in colour. If you don’t have a camera that you can manually focus you may be able to fool the auto focus system by focusing on a close object and then re-framing to include distant objects that will now be blurred.
So there you have it, my photographic paintings.
