Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/07

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Subject: [Leica] PESO: sharpness is a bourgeois concept
From: scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:33:11 -0500

agreed!!
the slight blur makes it more dynamic and touches the emotions that much
faster.
bharani


Message: 5
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:46:05 +0100
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: sharpness is a bourgeois concept
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
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+1

Amen

;-)

Ph


Le 7 nov. 12 ? 20:32, Lluis Ripoll a ?crit :

> Absolutely agree Nathan, I love this HCB sentence and I like very
> much your picture, even I think is better unsharp
>
> Un abrazo
> Lluis
>
>
> El 06/11/2012, a las 19:11, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:
>
>> 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