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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: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:51:07 -0400
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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