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Subject: [Leica] IMG: General Tire
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:44:21 -0800
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OK SONNY IF BOHEK IS AS GOOD AS SUSHI? I'M ALL FOR IT! ;-)

cheers,
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 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire


> AAll I can say Bill, is I never heard of Sushi until I heard of it.  That
> doesn't make it something I don't want to have anything to do with.
> 
> I was a country boy from North Louisiana with a Brownie Hawkeye when I
> moved to Wetzlar Germany at 13 years old.
> 
> Now I am a 68 year old guy who shoots with an M9, and I know and care what
> bokeh means.
> 
> BTW, I make my living as Webmaster for the University Libraries.  That's
> right, I build the internet.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm with you, Ted. you've got about 20 years on me, but in all my career
>> as a photographer, I never heard the term Bokeh or any concern over what 
>> it
>> represents. I blame the internet. A seemingly meaningless thing can grow
>> far out proportion on the internet. (I'm reminded of the TV commercial:
>> Good looking girl says something, guy says Who told you that's true, she
>> says the internet. He says so everything on the internet is true? she says
>> Yes, he says who told you that, oh, yeah, the internet. Really ugly guy
>> walks up, she says this is my boyfriend, he's a french supermodel. She met
>> him on the internet.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
>> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:06 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: General Tire
>>
>> 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
>>>
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 
> USA
> 
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: General Tire)
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