(Almost) completely out of focus shots!

Sorry about the brain cramp re motion blur vs. out of focus 😏 I'm finding a lot of interest and inspiration in the creativity shared in your thread, so thank you! I believe this one is 99% out of focus - if my aging eyes don't deceive. I was shooting directly into the early morning sun, through a bush covered with dew.

It's fine, don't worry about it.

The most usual case you can accidentally take completely out of focus shot is when you are taking close-up or macro photos.
At this time it was not an accident. I tried to take out of focus shot.

A Canon Macro Lens 35mm/2.8 focused to very near, ~1:1 magnification, picture taken from much longer distance.

One from me :

Although the exif data says 50mm, this was taken with the Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestor 100 2.8 (early version)

Regards,
Joe.

Face or Vase?! The first time I looked, I saw a white "push to launch" button raised above the darker orange circle. Just now, scrolling down, I see the white hot fuel burner inside a cylinder. Wowsa!

Rain

Some of the raindrops are in focus, but with motion blur. The background is well out of focus.

Perhaps this fits the criteria?

I play with Out Of Focus and other oddities from time to time, so of course I have tried it in my two favorite locations, the nearby swamp and the nearby dam. Here is what the swamp is like at sunrise in spring with everything OOF and a little movement. Movement is a different action than OOF but they can be used together and often the resulting image is somewhat similar - blurred. I've also done the OOF thing where you take a bunch of pictures going round a subject, some focused and some OOF, then blend them. Can't quickly lay hands on those right now.

Here is what dam birds look like in dawn light OOF plus longer exposure: angels I think.

Beautiful!

Rich

Thank you for sharing your interpretation - that's quite fascinating. I didn't think of the first one but I like it. The second one describes pretty well what I had in mind!

Thank you for sharing! For me it does, but I guess it depends on how strictly you're interpreting the title/description. Rain is certainly an interesting subject for oof shots though... need to keep that in mind and try it next time I have a chance.

Those are very beautiful - thank you very much! Angels indeed in the second one and very beautiful colors in the first.

Canon Macro Lens 35 mm f/2.8 at f/5.6

Alien creatures with big eyes worshipping their sun god? Love this!

In the years you've been sharing your dam birds, I don't recall having seen one like this. Magical!!

Serene, cool and relaxing. Especially appreciated during my area's current heat wave.

Ehm!? Yes, indeed! Exactly! 😆

There's a melody in everything... by simple.joy, on Flickr

An oof shot of some bluebells , I kind of liked it though I made sure to take some sharp shots as well 😀

Thank you! Flowers are indeed very suitable and versatile subjects for oof experiments. I've recently taken a couple of shots with quite an unusual lens, and while everything was just slightly out of focus in some of them, I really liked the look:

Soft spot for flowers by simple.joy, on Flickr

I've changed the title of the thread - hope that some people will have a couple more shots to share...

And in order to have enough of the "completely out of focus" I've managed to find a couple more of those as well:

Event horizon... (at breakfast) by simple.joy, on Flickr

Red blood cells... ahem... in B&W by simple.joy, on Flickr

If they have no bread, let them eat diamonds! by simple.joy, on Flickr