Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted jotted down the following: > Only to people who may know the difference and 99.999999% of the people in the > world don't know a good, bad or ugly photograph when they see them! I guess it essentially boils down to for whom you are taking photographs. I can understand that someone who makes their living as a photographer will quickly shed any appreciation of pictorial qualities that their clients are oblivious to. However, I take pictures for myself. I don't have clients and no-one wants to buy my pictures. I don't care if 99.999999% of the world's population doesn't see or understand bokeh (I don't even care if 99.999999% of the world's population thinks my pictures suck -- which they probably would if anyone bothered to ask them). I do know and understand bokeh, and I'm concerned with its appearance in my pictures. I feel that is just as valid a position -- and no more or less 'right' -- than not caring about it. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | It is essentially contestable. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------