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'23kpc' Chapter 4: Crosshatching the Background
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'23kpc' Chapter 4: Crosshatching the Background

...when the foreground goes temporarily out of focus

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Sep 21, 2024
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'23kpc' Chapter 4: Crosshatching the Background
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A photograph of an elegant restaurant; the photo's apparent main subject is a brightly lighted table of some kind, surrounded by chairs. But the table is blurry, out of focus, and rendered in black-and-white rather than color -- while the surroundings are all in color, and sharply focused.
[Image: “Reading table, restaurant at the hotel new york,” original photo by Michael Edson found on Flickr and used here — slightly remixed — under a generous Creative Commons license. Thank you!]

No idea what this is about? You might want to start at the preceding two posts in this series, here and here, before moving on.

What you know so far: Chapters 1…

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