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From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 05 December, 2002 09:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] shooting at f1.2 or f1.0
> At 12:43 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >That actually looks much nicer, the bokeh is smoother. When I saw the
> >first picture, the bokeh in the orange flowers literally JUMPED OUT at
me.
> >But this image is much, much smoother.
> >
> >You might want to try sharpening only the girl by using a layer mask.
> >
> >I've been hunting for some Noctilux examples to compare against. The bit
> >thing that many people like is the smooth, relativly even out-of-focus
> >areas of that lens. Look at these:
> >
> >http://www.shinozuka-family.com/f1/ (images #1, #6, #7) The background
> >seems to just blur out of existance in most of these.
>
> AH yes, the infamous Noct. I am sure it's somewhere on his website that
> there is a color picture of one of the kids in a pile of leaves taken with
> the Noct, and the leaves look as if they are spinning due to the out of
> focus effect!! It was mentioned in the rec.photo.equipment.35mm not too
> long ago.
I read this comment and thought of this image:
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/People/deuci.htm
Don't ask me for the connection in my thoughts other than perhaps Richard's
use of the word "kids".
I particularly like the evenness of the out of focus part of the photo.
jh
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