Orton Effect

[Kathryn]

I can't decide if this is cool and dreamy or if it just looks like I forgot to wear my glasses.

[Dave Schofield]

= glasses. headache.

[Gail]

this is what everything used to look like to me before I had laser eye surgery. :)

[☮Lee Gordon☮]

it doesn't look like the orton effect I get, here is one of my orton shots

[Phil]

I like the glow... perhaps it looks better on a smaller object like Lee's leaves though. @aponi

[Dave]

I've applied it to a couple of pics and mine looked like yours ... out of focus. I'll take a minute sometime soon to see if the centers are in focus like the green leaves; but it didn't look like they were in the pics I tried.

[karenpics]

Gives me a headache just looking at it.

[Stevie G]

@aponi I must say, I quite like it Kathryn!

[Jo]

Looks like an artistic impression of what an area will look like before they actually build it.

[Maaikel]

LOL not sure if I like this, but we had to try everything !

[joey d.Muli]

@aponi ----i told you don't smoke weeds and shoot---lol !!- just KIdiiiiiiing:)-----well,under the influence, --- looks fine w/ me :)

[Sue Wilde]

I need to clean my glasses

[Fanny Brogden]

Probably the wrong type of subject......maybe?

[Teddles]

serious eye strain. I have bad eyes anyway, and the out of focus pics really hurt

[Dawn Reilly]

@gailmmeek lol I though the same thing! @asrai i like the effect on you photo though.

[Jodi]

May I ask what the fascination is with out of focus pictures? The OP picture doesn't quite fit in with what I am talking about, however. I have seen butt loads of extremely out of focus photos recently (the OP pic you can at least see what it is ;) ). I don't want to link examples on here as I don't wish to offend. I am genuinely interested in the love for them. I'm not talking about DOF (or lack thereof ;) ) shots either. I am talking about a full page of blurry nothing with comments such as "FAV!" "Gorgeous!" "Great POV!" etc. I honestly feel like I am missing something....

I am no photographer, not even close. And I am not trying to start anything, god forbid. ;) And yes, I like the OP pic. :)

[Kathryn]

I did a different one that seemed to turn out better, in that it doesn't hurt my eyes anyway. More weed totally might help. The tutorial I was using did this effect with a bridge.



@jojos2 oddly enough out of focus wasn't really what I was going for. I have seen some of what I think you're talking about. It's supposed to represent motion or something but I don't quite get it. I get out of focus by drinking too much coffee and then not taking my tripod along.

[Jodi]

@aponi Lol re: the coffee comment!

I probably shouldn't have posted my question on your thread, because it isn't relevant to your pictures, but I had just stumbled across yet another completely out of focus picture of a stationary item (not a car going past, or a kid running in the park), with more of the comments and fav's I was talking about and I was SO confused. ;)

I do really like the pictures you posted, especially the second one. The colours are divine. Thanks for your reply. :)