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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WAS: Bokeh'm - Help for Ted!!!
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:50:19 -0400
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Jim-
Some people have the philosophy; if it ain't boke, don't fix it!

Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jim@brick.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: WAS: Bokeh'm - Help for Ted!!!


> 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
> >
>
>

In reply to: Message from "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com> ([Leica] WAS: Bokeh'm somebody, naw nuke it! ;-))
Message from "Mikiro" <arbos@silva.net> (RE: [Leica] Bokeh'm somebody)
Message from Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> ([Leica] Re: WAS: Bokeh'm - Help for Ted!!!)