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Subject: [Leica] 366 photos of 2012
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:17:54 -0600
References: <CAFfkXxsoyjkAav+6Uv-eXu0F+caJWPkLO=Zt6F3zs0fkfJuwEQ@mail.gmail.com> <CD10D32C.31A0%mark@rabinergroup.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9A169E61E@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org>

When I was shooting news, I was NOT a bokeh boi.



On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> You do not need thin DoF if you have an interesting subject. Most of my
> shots of Wellington would look like nothing if I shot to get DoF, they only
> become an 'interesting' photo due to the treatment....
>
>  Also many non-Leica lenses leave a lot to be desired in the sharpness
> stakes at full aperture ;-)
>
> john
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>  On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
> >
> > Out of almost a couple of hundred shots I looked it I saw about 4 or 5
>  thin
> > focas and those were at night or shot with very long tele lenses.
> >
> >
> > On 1/7/13 4:54 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
> > > rabinergroup.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Almost none of them share the same Lug love for wide open selective
> > >> focus images. 99% of them are  as sharp in the  near foreground as
> > >> they are in the far background. Even those taken in low light
> > >> situations.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe in your glee you are clicking fastly.  I saw several.   I'm
> thinking
> > > even the snowman was kinda wide aperture.  The wall in the bkgd was
> > soft.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> And I'm not seeing
> > >> evidence of flash at all. But it could be used with great subtlety as
> > >> fill in the noon day sun.
> > >>
> > >> I'm fond of the making snowman in Jerusalem shot:
> > >> http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/01/366-the-year-in-photographs-2012/
> > >> #62
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 1/6/13 12:18 PM, "Mark William Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> We should all have 365.26 day photo collections! A click in the life.
> > >>> I bet the fact that so much photography is being doing now with cell
> > >> phones
> > >>> will make these really happen. And they'll have pre formatted
> > >>> templates
> > >> for
> > >>> Blurbs for them. With notes for grocery shopping and laundry list on
> > >>> the facing pages. With a section on famous birthdays and deaths.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 1/5/13 10:15 PM, "Jay Burleson" <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Some really good stuff in this collection:
> > >>>> http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/01/366-the-year-in-photographs-
> > 201
> > >>>> 2/#1
> > >>>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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