Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What jumps out at me is actually how international the locales really are - very few in US, and many in China. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I got this on my news feed just now 52 best pix of the year from around the > world and was impressed on the state of the craft as seen by these guys. > A slew of really impressive shots. A pretty good selection. I'm glad I > clicked on it. > > > http://www.thebaynet.com/news/the-52-best-photographs-from-around-the-world- > in-2014.html > > Or > > http://tinyurl.com/pkoyow8 > > TheBayNet.com | Southern Maryland's Number 1 News Source > What's in southern Maryland? I just checked ....Washington DC for one! > > If one wanted to ascertain the state of bokeh in lens design based on these > you'd have a hard time as only a small handful of them like six have any > out > of focus areas in them at all. The vast bulk of them are sharp as a tack > from infinity to the camera. > Reason? > There's one reason for it as far as I see it. Instead of shooting at 400 or > 1600 iso we are not shooting at 64,000 or higher. 3 or 4 stops faster than > the film era. > The level of detail in these shots would be a shame to exclude from the > image. There was no reason to open up your f stops to "isolate" an subject > area. > Noise is non existent in any shots I can recall here and sharpness is super > high. > If thin sharp areas were ever in fashion and I suspect it never was its > certainly not now. Even in not brightly lit shots we can now it seems > easily > get it all with no flash. > We need to get it all. And then some. > > My conclusion is its an exciting time to be involved with this whole > photography thing. I don't see the down slides. I don't see the lose lose. > I > don't see the poignant reverences for the sweet days of film. > And I sure don't see the tele tale brittle soulless "digital look". > > Hand me my SanDisk card I'm ready to roll! > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits