Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There now a couple of the mature gentlemen LUG "ELDERS!" Have enlightened this "elder" what BOHEK is about. Thank you both gentlemen. I shall forthwith as of this St. David's Day never mention BOHEK again simply because I know what it means, now. His innerself whispered: "Actually it's a little white lie, he still doesn't know!" ;-) Cheers, Dr. ted :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire > Ted, it is just a Japanese word that is short for "out of focus background" > and there has always been good out of focus background and bad out of focus > background, when you use fast or long lenses. > > I'm an old fart too, and I find it a useful term. Nothing to get your > panties bunched up about. > > ;-) > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:06 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Tina my dear Lady. >> >> OK HERE I GO AGAIN ABOUT THIS BOKEH STUFF! :-) :-) >> >> Never mind the back ground in this photo! who cares????? Look at the >> strength content of the face!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> Maybe a tad bit of burning down all around the sides done well and the >> "brightness factor" may not be as distracting?" But it's the face that >> matters. >> >> Maybe I'm the one who's crazy here, but I rarely ever did... unless it was >> so blatantly obvious did I ever pay much attention to backgrounds other >> than things sticking out of heads or quite an obvious "shape or object >> more >> powerful than the main content of the photograph creating a distraction!" >> Then it was corrected or the frame went into file 13 off the Light table! >> >> And as I've repeated myself several times! I never knew what the heck the >> word bokeh meant? Still really don't! Let alone ever recall reading >> anything about it until I hit the "funny pages on the LUG!" >> >> I suppose that answers my own question? I never read much about >> photography simply because I was always far to busy taking photographs and >> having fun??????? Being paid for it and sent about the world having a >> great >> time! But no one ever said to me..... "Gee Ted there's a lot of bokeh in >> your photos!" during my 60 plus years shooting. I suppose somewhere in >> the >> National Archives Collection of 380,000 images there must be one or two? >> ;-) ;-) But do you know what? If nobody has found or said anything about >> it >> in my photographs to date? I'm not going to start looking for them at >> this late time in my life. :-) >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> >> To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at >> leica-users.org>; >> "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; >> "Olympus >> Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:28 AM >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire >> >> >> PESO: >>> >>> I think looking at the bokeh on this one that it was made with the R6.2 >>> and >>> 80/1.4 but I'm not sure. >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/148999591<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148999591> >>> >>> C&C? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >>> more information >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information