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LittleFoot
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When someone takes a picture of something but the real focus is something else?

For example, this picture in the post your latest purchase thread

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Obviously the focus is on the fact that he drives stick, the ice-cream is just a decoy. I see it all the time on facebook
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LittleFoot
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FLBP
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Or when a girl posts a pic with "OMG new hair!"  but really all you can see in the picture is cleavage.
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bdarb207
Posts: 3057 - Karma: 443
Subliminal messaging?
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Toaster-Tony
Posts: 3531 - Karma: 5,850
Bad aiming?
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Laurent.
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It's just what I did in this pic to show of my carry-on.

It also very subtlety shows that I have a MacBook Pro, some Bower & Wilkins headphones, a sweet vintage Russian camera and that I read rare first edition books on 80's Italian design.

It's the act of 'subtlety' claiming things to seem more interesting and awesome.

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bdarb207
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If it were film and they were actually altering focus from an object in the foreground to the background or vice versa it would be a rack focus.
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Flying~Squirrel
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when a guy post pics of his new tattoo and flexes
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Spinoza
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+1 jaha
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