Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rodgers, David wrote: > > http://www.flarg.com/bokeh.html<< > > It's a very nice photograph. Interesting, too. :-) [just in case someone is not paying attention, that's not a photograph but a rendering of a bunch of geometric primitives] > I shouldn't make light of bokeh. There's probably something to it. It's just > not important to me. I don't want to be concerned with things like out of > focus rendering when I look at an image. I didn't notice it when I didn't > know a word for it. Now that I know the word, I still don't notice it. > > It's bad enough right now that when I look at a b/w print I wonder first > about things like, "the DMAX could be better", or "The highlights are a > little washed out", or "it's a little soft". Who knows, maybe that's what > the photographer wanted in the first place. I want to get back to viewing a > photograph from an emotional level. I don't see how subtle changes in out of > focus areas will affect me viscerally. I kind of agree with that. Bokeh is just another technical concept that is interesting to talk about. It can be bad and distracting yes, but cannot make for a good picture alone, just as focus or dmax or printing alone cannot either (doh.) When I look at *my* pictures I usually don't think about focus or dmax or bokeh, but say things like "I should have gotten closer" or "what the hell was I thinking" or even "I think Americans should play more soccer." j - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan J. Buhler | Sr. FX Animator @ PDI | Photos at http://www.jbuhler.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------