Custom Series 2

I chose to do a similar censorship idea in this series, capturing the essence of censorship, while introducing new ideas into the series. A key difference that you see here is censorship using blurring techniques preserves the original image's color and depending on the level on blurriness the shape of the object itself. On the other hand, we still keep that corrupted nature, intruding much like my shoe in the picture.

We see here another intrusion by way of censorship, but it keeps the most important and influential part in plain view. This gives the observer a sense not of outrage, but intrigue more as to what is being blurred and why.

Blurring is also unique in that it is a natural thing, so the observer may have trouble identifying it as intentional or a mistake.

If we use this picture as an example we can see that parts of this picture are naturally and intentionally blurred. It is hard to tell where one edit starts and another stops, especially when looking at the subject of the picture.

An interesting part of the last photo was the interaction between non-blurred and blurred objects. The black car pops out from the blurred background to create a powerful dichotomy between the real and the imaginary.

A continuation of the dichotomy, but this the steady blur creates a ghostly effect. We see that the background still keeps to the original coloration of the non-blurred object, which creates a less contrasting and more pleasing picture.

The colors blend, but the subject changes once again. We know its a flower, but we cant see the crisp pollen stalks, and instead see a whirlwind of orange.

Blur is used to censor the light rays coming from the sun, creating a bubble.

I return to the original idea of censorship using blur, to show the importance of color and the shape of the censored objects.

The one part of the picture that is blurred and whose color is manipulated, gives it all the attention in the photo. Attention drawn away often means something else has changed...