Digital BW, The Print

From: Jerry Olson <jerryolson@...> 

>Martin, I hope someone who lists Bokeh as one of their Gods will put up
>a really good example of the same image, one taken with a lens with
>"bad" bokeh, and one with a lens that has simply Supergobslopsius bokeh.
> I want to see the actual difference.

As I wrote in another posting, there is an excellent example of a picture ruined by bad bokeh in a thread on the photo.net Leica forum, titled something like "Example of bad bokeh by Doug Herr, a wildlife photographer. You can do a "search" in the forum.


>In any case, I can't see a landscape photographer having any interest in
>an out of focus area, as there usually aren't any.

Whether there are any or not depends entirely how you look, or perhaps I should say, on your vision -- and that's not an Anselm Adams vision. Look at _Landscapes_ by Ray K. Metzer (published by Aperture in 200). In this book there are many photographs in which Metzker seems to be exploring the nature of vision, and has many o-o-f areas in the foreground. Fascinating photographs.

--Mitch