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Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:08:03 -0500
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George -

Your posts always give me something to think about.  Thanks!

Tina

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:53 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:

>
> On Mar 1, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> +1 (also from an aging fart)
>
> Photography can be discussed from many different points of view.
>
> The moment of exposure can be important: magic moment, decisive,
> historical moment.
>
> The aesthetics can be important: composition, color, texture, line,
> tonality, light
>
> The rendering quality (another subset of aesthetics) can be important:
> bokeh, grain, noise, fringing, optical anomalies
>
> The science can be important: botanical, fauna, astronomical,
> anthropological, sociological, micro - macro - telescopic
>
> The most astounding photographs pay a good deal of attention to one or
> more of the above.
> When a photograph reaches the heights of all of the above - we refer to
> them as masterpieces:
> as the "photographer" has accomplished the right place at the right time
> with the correct equipment
> and with artistry and technical perfection.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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