Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: >I care a lot about how the background looks. >>>>> Hi Dan I guess I was a little cavalier in my comment of not "caring about the background" which is really not the case at all. My comment was more about "how it looks (bokeh) out of focus, I don't care what it looks like as long as it's so far out, you can't tell anything from it but a blur. My terminology for it? A complete out of focus mush of colour or mush of greys in B&W with no distracting highlghts or objects.. Like yourself, the background is important to me, simply because it can destroy everything if it creates a distraction. <<<<<>Perhaps most photographers let the background take care of itself, but for >me it is an integral part of the image, in focus or otherwise.>>>>>>> That's a given and again, I was a tad careless in my original description,.... <<<<"Like who cares about what the heck it looks like in the background? Isn't it, "the subject in focus that matters most?" Surely the subject in focus >is the most important part of any photograph?>>>>>> Obviously if we don't pay attention to the back ground we'll have trees growing out of the heads! :) I trust this clarifies what I meant about back ground (bokeh) appearance. ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant