Re: [Leica] Seeing vs photography (was: BOKEH of 35mm lenses)

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Ted-
We've been around you long enough to know what you're thinking! No need to
explain!
I think Dan C hit the nail on the head! The photos I really like are those
that use the 'background' to effectively frame the subject- though I have
had a lot of experience putting telephone pole out the tops of the heads of
LOTS of my subjects!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeing vs photography (was: BOKEH of 35mm lenses)


> Dan Cardish wrote:
>
> >I care a lot about how the background looks. >>>>>
>
> Hi Dan
>   I guess I was a little cavalier in my comment of not "caring about the
> background" which is really not the case at all. My comment was more about
> "how it looks  (bokeh) out of focus, I don't care what it looks like as
> long as it's so far out, you can't tell anything from it but a blur. My
> terminology for it?
> A complete out of focus mush of colour or mush of greys in B&W with no
> distracting highlghts or objects..
>
> Like yourself, the background is important to me, simply because it can
> destroy everything if it creates a distraction.
>
> <<<<<>Perhaps most photographers let the background take care of itself,
> but for
> >me it is an integral part of the image, in focus or otherwise.>>>>>>>
>
> That's a given and again, I was a tad careless in my original
description,....
> <<<<"Like who cares about what the heck it looks like in the background?
Isn't
> it, "the subject in focus that matters most?"  Surely the subject in focus
> >is the most important part of any photograph?>>>>>>
>
> Obviously if we don't pay attention to the back ground we'll have trees
> growing out of the heads! :)
>
> I trust this clarifies what I meant about back ground (bokeh) appearance.
>
> ted
>
> Ted Grant
> This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
> http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
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