One of the principles of photography is to minimize distractions to your focus, as it were. Easier said than done.
I took these photos before I knew how to blur the background, and don’t think that would have helped anyway. In this case, the best I could do was to stand where the background would be least distracting, and it’s OK but not great IMHO. Just too much going on.
But the clothes are cool, and it was a creative way for the artiste to display them.
As a side note, for any who get this far, I categorized this post under “Photos of Built Stuff.” Hard to argue with that, although it’s not exactly what I had in mind when I named the category.
I may just need to tie-dye some tights! Great photos!
Danielle – I know! About the tie-dyed tights or leggings, I mean. They’d be fun.
Tie-dyed t-shirts, I have seen but the others are newbies to me. Guess only in Burnstown.
Good spotting Isabel. (But I guess it would have been hard to miss them ☺☺)
Jim R – Yes, subtle isn’t their strong point. An over-rated virtue . . .
Some of my workshirts look like that, but they were never intentionally dyed that way.
Jim T
Jim T – Painting accidents? Wear them proudly: they’re art.
Isabel – How do you blur the background? In my case it generally only happens by accident.
John – I have it happen by accident, too, but sometimes it’s on purpose. I set the aperture to a low F-stop number, like 5.4 or somesuch, and then focus on the subject. The range of what’s in focus is very shallow, and the background blurs, anywhere from a lot to a little, depending on how much I’m zooming.