Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dick, Dick, Dick... You are missing the point. Bokeh isn't something you define and look at. It is all about arguing over the word. B-O-K-E-H, what it means, where it came from, who invented it, how do you calibrate it, etc. I mean, if you actually take photographs and look for the Bokeh, well, that would be blasphemy. Jim At 02:56 PM 7/12/01 -0500, Richard W. Hemingway wrote: >Ted, you wrote: > > >such a major part of the photograph? I was thinking I had failed as a > >photographer, my goodness it was a terrible dilemma. Had I been wrong lo > >these many years because I hadn't created a nice out of focus look? > >Obviously you need major help and I am here to do it.I immediately got our >your book "This is Our Work" and looked through all the plates. Plate two >of nurse Miller has to be excised from the book. Look at the terrible >Bokeh on the thing dangling by the right side of her head and also beside >her left ear!! Also the same as to Plate 69 - look at the terrible double >image in the window of the white blobs. This will never do. > >On the other hand by so looking at your book I found that I had perfected a >new way of appreciating pictures. I found that I was only looking at the >out of focus image, plate after plate and enjoying it. I also came to the >conclusion that what else was in the picture had no importance at all as I >never looked at it. > >Conclusion, you are wasting your time taking pictures in focus. Set all >your lenses at f/1.4 and the closest focusing distance and then just snap >away. Since you have been so helpful to me in the past I won't charge you >for this invaluable help > >Yours for fuzzy images, > >Dick H >