Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 23, 2009, Tina wrote: > After the disastrous bokeh last week, I decided to download and try > out the Bokeh program from AlienSkin. You can try it for 30 days for > free. It's not hard to use but there are many, many choices of > different kinds of bokeh - some based on Nikon, Canon, and Zeiss > lenses - NO LEICA!! I just used the default to experiment with. > > Before: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/110546858 > After: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/110546877 > > What do you think? Believable? Better? Worse? Suggestions? Y'know... I think that anything that lets you shoot the picture that's about to disappear forever and then fix a few things after the fact to an acceptable level is really a good thing. (I think the second one is better for me, although the saturation is a bit over the top on my monitor.) Yesterday I was on a (very long) recording session and we were discussing a similar issue regarding digital audio editing tools. Really, having a little bit of a net allows players to play more spontaneously instead of playing too safe. You can get a really visceral performance and fix a note or two that might cause some wincing down the road. Actually, I'm having a bit of a bokeh issue at the moment; more about that in a follow-up posting. Bob Palmieri