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Mitch Alland
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Jono Slack wrote the following interesting statement in another thread:
For the type of portraits I now make I prefer just only a touch of bokeh, as in the following two pictures taken with the GRD2 with its 40mm EFL tele-converter at ISO 400. (Sorry for reposting these, but I think they make the point):
Maggie, if you're reading this you may have noticed that I've gone with the higher contrast version of the last picture, and I've also accentuated the grain a bit through sharpening.
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
I used to be enamoured of highly blurred-out backgrounds, but increasingly feel that use of this technique is often a gimmick: an easy way out, particularly for portraits, "to isolate the subject" as they say — most of the time I feel it's trite. The following picture was taken with the Summilux-75 on Tri-X and has the creamy rendition of that lens; but I no longer like the picture and feel that it would be better if the background were either in focus or only slightly out ot focus:...but if there's one thing that this forum has taught me, it's that the huge depth of field of the small sensor cameras is an asset not to be easily dismissed...
For the type of portraits I now make I prefer just only a touch of bokeh, as in the following two pictures taken with the GRD2 with its 40mm EFL tele-converter at ISO 400. (Sorry for reposting these, but I think they make the point):
Maggie, if you're reading this you may have noticed that I've gone with the higher contrast version of the last picture, and I've also accentuated the grain a bit through sharpening.
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
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