Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS: HCB's inspirational drivel NOW BOKEH again!aaack!
From: telyt560@cswebmail.com
Date: 28 Aug 2000 07:49:46 -0700

on 27/8/00 10:07 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote:

> When the subject first broke water, I began looking at many of my
> photographs from the past and what the bokeh did or didn't do for the
> picture, and you know what?  To me it didn't mean diddly squat!
>


On Mon, 28 August 2000, khmiska wrote:

> 
> Ted,
> Amen. I'm glad I never knew what Oky Doky (or whatever) is, I still don't fully
> understand it and what's more I could give a d***. I know what I like. I
> photograph (Leica, Nikon, Rolleiflex) for my own amusement and my family's.
> Again, well put.
> Regards
> Kurt
> Ann Arbor
> 

and, apbbeijing wrote:

> Ted,
>
> Once again you put in a few words what I have tried to express using so many
> more! Thanks,
>
> Adrian
>

Adrian, Kurt, Ted,

I try to use the entire image area in my wildlife photos, as in a photo WITH a critter, rather than a photo OF a critter (not that I always succeed...)

What I want in my photos is the animal with a visual suggestion of it's habitat.  A lens with hard-edged double-line bokeh can produce distracting background areas that compete with the animal for the viewer's attention instead of enhancing the viewer's understanding of the creature and how it lives.  It's one of the reasons I don't use mirror lenses.  The effect was obvious to those who live by the long lens long before the word describing it was introduced to the english language.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
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