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Re: [OM] Good Bokeh, Bad Bokeh, Drawing a Confession from the Guilty

Subject: Re: [OM] Good Bokeh, Bad Bokeh, Drawing a Confession from the Guilty
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:11:55 -0500
Yes, one person's grain is another person's ethanol. The only
important question is what form of ethanol do you prefer? Some goes
into a gas tank, some goes into oak barrels.

:)

AG

On Saturday, July 3, 2010, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, my grain mileage varies.  Must be that ethanol stuff.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Ken Norton wrote:
>> Chuck, I do appreciate what you are saying about the grain thing. I
>> personally find grain undesirable when it either masks image details
>> or draws the eye away from the details. Let's take a wedding portrait,
>> for example, the last thing you want is grain masking.
>>
>> But to pick on my gate photo, where I THINK it works is in the expanse
>> of focus blurring where there is no detail to mask and what is there
>> is better off being masked.
>>
>> The one thing I've really liked about the E1 photos is the ever
>> present texture of grain-like noise which seems to give the image bite
>> without resorting to over-sharpening. Ultra-clean images seem to need
>> a lot of sharpening to give the same pop. The E1 portraits can usually
>> be printed straight.
>>
>> YMMV
>>
>> AG
>>
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