[Leica] Bokeh

Tina Manley tmanley at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 17:12:39 PDT 2014


That's what I always thought!

Tina


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Ted Grant wrote:
>
> >Alan Magayne-Roshak OFFERED:
> >
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh
> >
> >Here is my candidate for an example of pleasing bokeh. It's my 85mm f/2
> >Nikkor LTM at /2.8:
> >
> ><
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Enigmatic/Fowl_AMR.jpg
> >.html><<<<<<<
> >
> >Hi Alan,
> >Interesting you point this out. Thank you.
> >As the background to me as I first looked at the photo was meaningless! My
> >eyes, well the one good one went right to the birds without any re-action
> to
> >the back ground.
>
> That's the entire point of pleasing bokeh.  The background doesn't
> distract from the subject.  With ugly bokeh the background competes for
> attention with the subject.
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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