Raaj: I love the Self portrait. In general the "Full Frame OOF" technique allows for another kind of compositions.
Because there is less structural definition, there are more color blob relations and the rendering of the OOF part (all in this case) becomes more important too.
After some experiments with DEFOCUSSING I found it to be more interesting to MOVE THE CAMERA WHILE SHOOTING.
Then I took onto INVERSE PANNING, by shooting still standing subjects from a driving car. Background was my customner took me with him in his car to cover events all over Germany. Because we were on his time table we would not step out unless we neded to.