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Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire
From: billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:42:41 -0600
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I'm with you, Ted. you've got about 20 years on me, but in all my career as 
a photographer, I never heard the term Bokeh or any concern over what it 
represents. I blame the internet. A seemingly meaningless thing can grow far 
out proportion on the internet. (I'm reminded of the TV commercial: Good 
looking girl says something, guy says Who told you that's true, she says the 
internet. He says so everything on the internet is true? she says Yes, he 
says who told you that, oh, yeah, the internet. Really ugly guy walks up, 
she says this is my boyfriend, he's a french supermodel. She met him on the 
internet.

-----Original Message----- 
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:06 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire

Hi Tina my dear Lady.

OK HERE I GO AGAIN ABOUT THIS BOKEH STUFF! :-) :-)

Never mind the back ground in this photo! who cares????? Look at the
strength content of the face!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe a tad bit of burning down all around the sides done well and the
"brightness factor" may not be as distracting?" But it's the face that
matters.

Maybe I'm the one who's crazy here, but I rarely ever did... unless it was
so blatantly obvious did I ever pay much attention to backgrounds other than
things sticking out of heads or quite an obvious "shape or object more
powerful than the main content of the photograph creating a distraction!"
Then it was corrected or the frame  went into file 13 off the Light table!

And as I've repeated myself several times! I never knew what the heck the
word bokeh meant? Still really don't!  Let alone ever recall reading
anything about it until I hit the "funny pages on the LUG!"

I suppose that answers my own question? I never read much about photography
simply because I was always far to busy taking photographs and having
fun??????? Being paid for it and sent about the world having a great time!
But no one ever said to me..... "Gee Ted there's a lot of bokeh in your
photos!"  during my 60 plus years shooting. I suppose somewhere in the
National Archives Collection of 380,000 images there must be one or two? ;-)
;-) But do you know what? If nobody has found or said anything about it in
my photographs to date?   I'm not going to start looking for them at this
late time in my life. :-)

cheers,
Dr. ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at 
leica-users.org>;
"paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; "Olympus
Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:28 AM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire


> PESO:
>
> I think looking at the bokeh on this one that it was made with the R6.2 
> and
> 80/1.4 but I'm not sure.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148999591
>
> C&C?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tina
>
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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