Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, The first and the fourth ones look like they are stopped down. They are OK for bokeh. The B&W conversion (the third one, I think) is just AWFUL! Bob On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:15 PM 3/19/2009, you wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:20 -0400, you wrote: >> Besides that, the edges abutting the bokeh -- particularly the gray >> rock -- look positively fake to me. I know it was shot "wide >> open," as >> Tina puts it. But it just doesn't look...normal to me, put it that >> way. >> >> Scandler > > All right. I put them all back up, but in their own gallery - Bokeh. > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/bokeh > > These are not manipulated in any way except levels - and one was > converted to B&W and one cropped. They were converted from RAW to > tiffs in LR and from large tiff Prophoto RGB to small jpeg sRGB in > PSC3. > > I don't know what lens (lenses?) I used. I have about a hundred > more photos taken from the same place but I haven't gotten to them > yet. They may be better or worse. > > If anybody has a clue why the bokeh is so awful, I'd love to know, > but nothing is faked - no artificial "bokeh" programs were used. > If I had used artificial bokeh, you can be sure it would not be > this awful! > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information