Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought it was because with such soft effects it imitated "art". As in painting. And or watercolor. A mere photograph with no pretensions got no respect those days. Mark William Rabiner > From: Bob W <leica@web-options.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:52:07 -0000 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Eye vs Camera Lens > >> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information