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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh controversy
From: Ted <tedgrant@home.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:01:55 -0800
References: <B6700FA6.38E6%howard.390@osu.edu>

OK! ;-)

Martin Howard wrote:

> 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/        +---------------------------------------

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