Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank Filippone jotted down the following: > Definition.... > > Bokeh..... the out of central interest areas of a picture that are also > elegantly out of focus. Those parts of a Leica picture that REALLY creates > the image. No, bokeh doesn't refer to areas of a picture that are out of focus -- it refers to the *qualities* of those areas in terms of how that out-of-focusness is portrayed. M. - -- Martin Howard | Harrisburg '79 Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Chernobyl '86 email: howard.390@osu.edu | Windows '98 www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------