Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted! I agree with you, you can be an excellent photographer and not care/know/be aware of bokeh. What I don't agree with is the implied sugestion that you cannot be a good photographer if you care about bokeh, or that talking about bokeh denotes someone who is a wannabe photographer. I think Johnny is probably the best evidence that that's not true (and he got rid of the Nokton because of its bokeh, right JD?) I think I've even read here someone referring to it as "believing in bokeh". That's silly. Time is wasted in many ways on this and most other photo lists. I don't think a discussion about bokeh is one. Now, a discussion about discussing bokeh probably is. j - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan J. Buhler | Sr. FX Animator @ PDI | Photos at http://www.jbuhler.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Juan, > You're right, as I'm always learning something about photography although > I've been doing it professionally for 50 years come this September 17th. But > I never heard reference of the bokah thing until someone came up with it on > the LUG some years ago. > > I thought, "well that's interesting I'll have a look." And you know what? I > looked at hundreds of prints and slides from over the years and not one of > them would've been improved from some "silly effect" called bokeh! It's just > a an effect created by some lenses over an other. > > Will it make a major difference to the photograph? Not bloody likely, unless > one is into artsy fartsy back ground picture taking! Even then, not likely > will 99% of the viewers, photographers and non even notice, nor pay any > attention to the out of focus background. > > It's a no big deal thing that keeps raising its stupid head on the LUG and > as far as I'm concerned it still falls into the "who cares" category when it > comes to a working photographers efforts! > ted > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant >