Well, it's certainly very difficult to express what you were after.
People tend to move their attention around a scene and in effect
everything they're not focussed on while viewing is out of focus in
the brain, even if not in the receptors in the eyes.
So when presented with more than one focal point in sharp focus I
think the viewer is likely to feel overload and try to sort out all
the data and focus the way the brain tends to.
Who was that guy, Eggelston I think, whose photographs are sharp and
not very contrasty from the viewer to infinity, and present a quirky
but very flat panorama of the subject.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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