I was working on focusing on an object in the foreground while making the background fuzzy.
A replica of an Egyptian statuette from Dynasty 12, ca. 1961–1878 B.C., at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Blue Hippo with Shiny Face
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Good job! You could go even farther. There’s still enough shape in the background to distract — your brain wants to identify the objects, where just a bokeh would really make the hippo pop out. A blue hippo! Was it blue in the original, I wonder.
The hippo is blue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the original from way back when.