Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK SONNY IF BOHEK IS AS GOOD AS SUSHI? I'M ALL FOR IT! ;-) cheers, ted ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire > AAll I can say Bill, is I never heard of Sushi until I heard of it. That > doesn't make it something I don't want to have anything to do with. > > I was a country boy from North Louisiana with a Brownie Hawkeye when I > moved to Wetzlar Germany at 13 years old. > > Now I am a 68 year old guy who shoots with an M9, and I know and care what > bokeh means. > > BTW, I make my living as Webmaster for the University Libraries. That's > right, I build the internet. > > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > >> I'm with you, Ted. you've got about 20 years on me, but in all my career >> as a photographer, I never heard the term Bokeh or any concern over what >> it >> represents. I blame the internet. A seemingly meaningless thing can grow >> far out proportion on the internet. (I'm reminded of the TV commercial: >> Good looking girl says something, guy says Who told you that's true, she >> says the internet. He says so everything on the internet is true? she says >> Yes, he says who told you that, oh, yeah, the internet. Really ugly guy >> walks up, she says this is my boyfriend, he's a french supermodel. She met >> him on the internet. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: tedgrant at shaw.ca >> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:06 PM >> To: Leica Users Group >> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire >> >> Hi Tina my dear Lady. >> >> OK HERE I GO AGAIN ABOUT THIS BOKEH STUFF! :-) :-) >> >> Never mind the back ground in this photo! who cares????? Look at the >> strength content of the face!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> Maybe a tad bit of burning down all around the sides done well and the >> "brightness factor" may not be as distracting?" But it's the face that >> matters. >> >> Maybe I'm the one who's crazy here, but I rarely ever did... unless it was >> so blatantly obvious did I ever pay much attention to backgrounds other >> than >> things sticking out of heads or quite an obvious "shape or object more >> powerful than the main content of the photograph creating a distraction!" >> Then it was corrected or the frame went into file 13 off the Light table! >> >> And as I've repeated myself several times! I never knew what the heck the >> word bokeh meant? Still really don't! Let alone ever recall reading >> anything about it until I hit the "funny pages on the LUG!" >> >> I suppose that answers my own question? I never read much about >> photography >> simply because I was always far to busy taking photographs and having >> fun??????? Being paid for it and sent about the world having a great time! >> But no one ever said to me..... "Gee Ted there's a lot of bokeh in your >> photos!" during my 60 plus years shooting. I suppose somewhere in the >> National Archives Collection of 380,000 images there must be one or two? >> ;-) >> ;-) But do you know what? If nobody has found or said anything about it in >> my photographs to date? I'm not going to start looking for them at this >> late time in my life. :-) >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> >> To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at >> leica-users.org>; >> "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; >> "Olympus >> Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:28 AM >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire >> >> >> PESO: >>> >>> I think looking at the bokeh on this one that it was made with the R6.2 >>> and >>> 80/1.4 but I'm not sure. >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/148999591<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148999591> >>> >>> C&C? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >>> more information >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information