[Theme] Your best unsharp photo

[John Geerts]

Ah, beautiful !

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Since I'm due for a medical check-up tomorrow, what about this scene from the waiting room?

(D40x, 43-86 Zoom-Nikkor, a lens that all Nikon fans "know" is pretty useless)

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Another "poor" lens might be the 300 AFS f/2.8 Nikkor, at least Erik is selling his and after seeing the result (?) it makes, I can understand him ....

(Køge Bay, Denmark with Erik's 300/2.8 )

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Dedicated to Jakov and his "El Presidente"

[Bjørn Rørslett]

I was asked to contribute a big print for an exhibition and came up with this, entitled "War Heroes" (done at the time of Operation Desert Storm)

[Jakov Minić]

All of them are wonderful, but you know that!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Another, this time from the US deserts: "Our nuclear future"

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Another Heligon, this time the 75 mm f/1.1: "Black Bird Blue"

[Jan Anne]

For a period the crew had the urge to make lenses from beer cans whenever we met, after a while we wanted more

The Bear processing his catch of the day

Nikon D800E & Laphroaig Quarter Cask 70cl, 4 seconds exposure, Norway 2013

Moi with one of our pinhole creations

Think Erik took this image, not sure though

[golunvolo]

Nikon D800E & Laphroaig QA 100cl, 4 seconds exposure, Norway 2013
Iconic image and technical data!

[Jan Anne]

Nikon D800E & Laphroaig QA 100cl, 4 seconds exposure, Norway 2013
Iconic image and technical data!

And hugely inaccurate

The main pinhole "lens" was the Laphroaig Quarter Cask 70cl case which was later made into a zoom lens by extending it with the QA 100cl. Kind of forgot if this image was taken with the single case or the stacked whisky cases, anyway I've updated my post.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Some techniques - guaranteed to give unsharp images - were 'easily' acquired in the ancient ages of film. Food for thought perhaps.

From my shooting of wind movement in grass-covered coastal heaths, a moderately successful capture;


 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

This IR picture showing a neolithic ritual stone ring might be too sharp to qualify?

[Jakov Minić]

Bjørn did you also pan the camera in the film shot? How did those lines appear? A lovely image I must say!
The neolithic IR is suitable for the upcoming Halloween

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Jakov: the camera was stationary. In effect, one interchanges time and space in this kind of photography.

I believe finishing line target cameras used for horse racing employed a similar technique.