Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh controversy
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:29:10 -0500

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.

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Martin Howard                     |
Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       |     It is essentially contestable.
email: howard.390@osu.edu         |
www: http://mvhoward.i.am/        +---------------------------------------

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