Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree about no right or wrong. I think all approaches are valid: sharp, fuzzy, fine grain, coarse grain, color, b&w, shallow depth of field, f/64, tilted camera -- all of it. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] PESO: sharpness is a bourgeois concept Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 10:54 pm It is a nice picture seen on screen, but I confess I am in the sharpness camp. I also have doubts how it would look in a decent size print. Sometimes, I take a blurry photograph I really like otherwise and play with it in Photoshop, using the more extreme painting and drawing functions, but not very often. I think this is a personal thing of how we would like our output presented, and as such, IMHO there is no right or wrong, irrespective of what anyone might think. (-: Nathan has posted some blurry ones in the past that I have quite liked - mainly because of the emotion conveyed, which to me, trumps aesthetics. This subject is rather like the long winded one on shutter lag that is doing the rounds on the list. Some hate it, some don't think it matters - so what? Just keep doing what suits you! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > I have sometimes used the above phrase in jest, but there really is > something to it. > > I took this picture in Barcelona last week. The story behind the picture > is that our office was hosting the trademark offices from the US, Japan, > China and Korea for an annual meeting of the so-called TM5 group. The first > day of meetings, Tuesday, was followed by a walking tour of Barcelona?s old > city and then dinner. As we were walking out of our hotel, it was slightly > drizzly, so most people took umbrellas with them. Within 10 minutes the > drizzle turned into a very serious downpour and any thoughts of looking at > the old city were replaced by thought of shelter, any kind of shelter. In > the end we made our way to La Boquer?a, a covered food market, from where > we took taxis to the restaurant. > > Along the way, I photographed a small group of our visitors being led > across Pla?a de Catalunya by Lynn, one of our employees: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20121030-L1008298.jpg.html > > Lynn absolutely loves this picture, and so do others to whom she has shown > it. I am going to have it printed for her. Do I wish it were sharper? Of > course! But I do not believe it is particularly "damaged" by not being > sharp. It sort of adds to the ambience, I think--and so do lots of others, > apparently. > > The lesson? Maybe none, but I think it is something along the lines of > "just take the damn picture"! > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information