Digital BW, The Print

To: "culturalvisions" <fmward@...> 

>Bokeh gets 
>good when your out of focus area is way out of focus.

That's true when you create washes of color, or of tones in B&W, as with the Noctilux at f/1. On the photo.net Leica forum there is an execellent example of bad bokeh by Doug Herr, a wildlife photographer: it's a picture of small bird with the o-o-f grass and bushes in the background with ugly "two-line" bokeh. In his posting, Doug Herr states that he could improve the bokeh with that lens by throwing the background completely out of focus; but he goes on to state that in his photography he wants to show the environment of the bird so, over the years, he has selected telephoto lenses with good bokeh.

--Mitch