Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>on 27/8/00 11:07 pm, Mark Rutledge at markrut@ticnet.com wrote: > >> Maybe bokeh has more to do with the "art" aspect of photography rather than >> the technical side. Emotion vs quantifiability. Images (painting, photos..) >> can move us in a way we cannot describe...beauty isn't measurable. Just a >> guess! > >I think bokeh is pretty measurable. Just no-one measures it yet. It's pretty >simple... > >[snipple] > >You don't care about bokeh? Fine. But my point of view is that a >photographer should be in charge of every element of his/her craft. Grain, >tonality, sharpness, bokeh and so on. Of course everyone knows the picture >comes first. But photography is a craft as well as an art. > >Why do I care? I just developed twenty five rolls. Pretty much all of it was >shot wide open on either the 35/1.4 or the TE 90/2.8. I have way more stuff >out of focus than in focus. Thank God for nice bokeh! > >Johnny Deadman i wanted to throw in my own 2 cents on this issue, but couldn't put it more eloquently than this. johnny, i appreciate your comments on bokeh, nukeh, hokeh, pokeh, etc., as well as your contributions in general. been meaning to say it for a while. guy