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hue over the photo, not a kind any filter can add. You head home and get in the shower. The steam from the hot water fills up the bathroom and an idea for a photo instantly hits you. You run out, grab your camera and wait for the lens to fog up. You then take a photo of the lights in your bathroom. The image you get has been blurred, however unlike a traditional blur, which is done by purposely changing how the camera shoots, such as forcing an out of focus shot, the background of this image is in focus, but the image has been softened and given a “desolate” or “gloomy” look. Meeting up with another set of friends the next day, you decided to try something new - turning on the flash while having a slow shutter speed. This creates an interesting effect where you see a ghost-like frame of your friend along with a sharp frame of them, both in the same image. You see that this photo helps capture the emotion
as well as the movement of your friend, something you would not be able to obtain with a higher shutter speed. Although you have tried a lot of techniques to get good blurry or out-of-focus photos, you know there are so many more out there. You could even create some of your own, and remember, an out-of-focus photo isn’t meant to be a technical perfection. Instead, it’s meant to create an emotional impact. At the end of the day, unless you are aiming to do it professionally, hobby photography is not meant to bring joy to anyone but you, so there is no such thing as a bad photograph, only different perspectives, especially when it comes to blur photography. Though an in-focus photo might be more pleasing to a wider audience, an out-of-focus photo might be more your style or help capture a moment or emotion that a sharp photo would never be able to. So remember to experiment, have fun and shoot with your heart and soul.
Do I get to choose? WRITTEN BY
ILLUSTRATED BY
Krishna Shreeram
Sauparnika Nair
Comps 2nd Year
MSc Maths 2nd Year
Omkar Ojas Kanade Mechanical 3rd Year
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Was it Dosa? Let’s say you had Dosa. Now, why do you think you decided to have Dosa and not something else? Your answer would be along the lines of “I just felt like it”. But was that it? Or was it a consequence of the actions of our forefathers who ruled the Palaeolithic era? This question is, believe it or not, at the heart of the contemporary philosophical debate. Well, not the Dosa one of course, but whether we are genuinely free and in charge of our actions or if we are merely puppets in the hands of fate. But wait, isn’t there a way out of this? Couldn’t you just toss a dice or use rand() to decide what to have for breakfast? While randomness appears to be great for making undetermined choices, there is always a hint of a pattern, no matter how intricate or difficult to discern it is. Therefore nothing is truly random.
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