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Subject: [Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Fri May 12 10:38:16 2006
References: <C08A3F5B.107DC%bdcolen@comcast.net>

I agree. If it's about journalism.


Op 12-mei-06, om 19:34 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven:

> You think you're joking, Philippe - just a couple of hours ago I was
> skimming a column in a national press photographer's association  
> magazine in
> which a photography teacher at, as I recall, the University of  
> Arkansas said
> that they are now two years past the last class of graduates to  
> have ever
> spent time in a real darkroom. And that, he said, begins to raise  
> havoc with
> what has been the standard ethical guideline regarding the use of  
> photoshop
> - only do to the image in photoshop what you would normally have  
> done in a
> darkroom; or only except from a photoshopped image what you would have
> accepted from the darkroom. But if today's photographers think a  
> darkroom is
> their bedroom with the lights off....
>
>
> On 5/12/06 1:11 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>  
> wrote:
>
>> Dodging? That's the 7th down from the 2nd row of 'tools', right?
>>
>> Just adding a ;-) to be sure.
>>
>> Op 12-mei-06, om 19:05 heeft Rei Shinozuka het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> it's a very handsome photo otherwise, maybe dodging the surrounding
>>> areas would rescue the image.  (doesn't the phrase "dodging"
>>> today sound almost quaint?)
>>>
>>> i have noticed that something approaching 100% of real-life "bad
>>> bokeh"
>>> examples are of vegetation; mostly tree branches or leaves.  so keep
>>> those bad bokesters away from wildlife!
>>>
>>> -rei
>>>
>>>> On 5/12/06 12:39 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan@nathanfoto.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well Daniel, with such subject matter one can tolerate many
>>>>> things...but
>>>>> that bokeh is indeed not very attractive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>>>>> A lot of people puke at my Rolleicord's bokeh (under certain
>>>>>> circumstances ... close focus, pretty much wide-open).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/informal/ 
>>>>>> v15-0002-43264.jpg.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>>
>>>
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