Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > LUG: > > B&H has an interesting article: > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/The-Photographic-Eye.jsp > > Includes bokeh information! > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > This observation about blurriness, from Herman von Helmholtz's ideas about human vision, is one of the ideas that P H Emerson brought to photography when he formalised Pictorialism. While we often think of pictorialism as unrealistic it is in some ways more realistic than its f/64 secessionist successors. Emerson's aim was to produce photographs that mimicked our vision, and that is why he promoted the use of soft focus and shallow depth of field. Bob