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04-15-2022, 06:05 PM - 2 Likes   #151
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QuoteOriginally posted by h.butz Quote
Those are all good points...

If I put on a pair of yellow tinted sunglasses, I am distorting reality - it's still "real" yet with higher contrast...
Even in a film camera every set of film dyes constitutes a different pair of sunglasses. Some films were extremely easy to identify back in the day just by their color rendering, but even in monochrome there were easily seen diffs between some films.

In a digital camera, various sensor classes and various processing choices built in to the development software constitute different sunglasses.

All cameras "distort" reality just like all brains do. For example there is no such thing as a pure purple in "reality" (as a singular spectral color). It is a construction which occurs in your brain resulting from how your brain processes a combination of wavelengths.


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QuoteOriginally posted by h.butz Quote
It's just not the reason I shoot photography.

And that's really the crux of the matter. The reasons why you personally take photos are reasons that make you want your end result to look as close as possible to the scene as you actually saw it. But of course others have got their own reasons for taking photos that are likely to be different.

In fact, think I've actually got a fairly similar view of things to you. I take photos entirely for myself, primarily as a way of capturing a moment that I want to be able to remember, so I'm not usually inclined to process my shots in any way that changes the essential truthiness of them. Meanwhile though, other photographers are doing their own photography for different but equally valid reasons. A photographer who is doing it for a living will always be more interested in producing an end result that somebody is willing to pay for rather than one that's strictly accurate to reality. And a photographer who enjoys entering competitions in genres where extensive processing is the norm, such as contemporary landscape photography, must presumably be quite comfortable with producing an end result that has very little resemble to the scene as it actually looked.

There's no neutral metaphotographic standard for any of us to refer to. There's no set of rules that we can point to and say, "That's it, right there. That's exactly what all photographers must do. Those are the rules that all photographers must follow." The most that any of us can say is, "This is what I happen to like, and this is why I happen to like it."

So to bring it back to the original point of the thread: If I decide that I want to add some background blur to a photo on the computer, and I'm comfortable with doing that because I don't think it alters the truthiness of that particular photo any more than using a lens with a wider aperture would have done, then I'm free to do that and nobody is entitled to tell me not to. It's no different in principle to dodging and burning a B&W print under an enlarger.

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QuoteOriginally posted by jgnfld Quote
Even in a film camera every set of film dyes constitutes a different pair of sunglasses. Some films were extremely easy to identify back in the day just by their color rendering, but even in monochrome there were easily seen diffs between some films.

In a digital camera, various sensor classes and various processing choices built in to the development software constitute different sunglasses.

All cameras "distort" reality just like all brains do. For example there is no such thing as a pure purple in "reality" (as a singular spectral color). It is a construction which occurs in your brain resulting from how your brain processes a combination of wavelengths.
I really think a lot comes down to what we are used to doing.

People can get used to anything -- even abdominal pain. In the case of film, people get used to the colors (or black and white responses) of their preferred film. It isn't that the world actually looks anything like what is captured by Kodak T Max or Fuji Provia, but photographers are used to it and know what they are going to get when they click the shutter.

(I am convinced that this is what was beyond much of the angst when digital moved from CCD to CMOS sensors)
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QuoteOriginally posted by Roland Karlsson Quote
Its like cats and dogs, some people like cats and some like dogs. And some like both. Some do like shallow DOF and some like infinite DOF. And some like both.
I do not mind dogs, but I prefer cats.
I have a relative who loves dogs and hates cats.
I have another relative who always owned cats, then decided they wanted a dog and now does not like cats.
I had a cat who liked dogs but not other cats.
I knew a dog that hated cats and would chase them, and I knew a cat that hated dogs and would chase them.
I knew a farmer that liked cats and dogs, but the dog accompanied him sheep herding which the cat was bad at, so the farmer preferred the dog on that basis.
Then again, I knew a cat that travelled on the bus with his owner and helped him to busk.

Just backing up what you were saying about cats and dogs.

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QuoteOriginally posted by Rondec Quote
People can get used to anything -- even abdominal pain.
I am not so sure about this.
I have a relative who suffers continual abdominal pain and they are not used to it.
Also, Mike was still troubled by arthritis on page 2.

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QuoteOriginally posted by swanlefitte Quote
As for water a friend did a double-blind taste test and correctly identified 5 brands all refrigerated over night.
I am agreeing with what you are saying about water.
But I knew someone who could not tell the difference between waters and coriander tasted metallic to them.

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QuoteOriginally posted by BigMackCam Quote
Another member earlier in the thread mentioned fine, fly-away hairs on someone's head... It's a common scenario
I worked with someone once who had this problem. They were old and their hair was very fine, and when you sat behind them you could see the fly-away hairs wavering slightly in convection currents and it was very distracting.

I am agreeing with what you're saying in principle, but I don't know how common a scenario this is. I have only ever known one person like this.

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QuoteOriginally posted by FozzFoster Quote
Ok here me out:
On a bright day, lie on your back on the ground with a ball cap over your face.
With most ball caps, there's little holes on the top of the cap.
I would like to try this but I do not have a ball cap.
I have a relative who collects ball caps. He has ball caps from many countries around the world and they are in his wardrobe. Sometimes he wears them, but mostly they are just for collecting.
I emailed him and he said there were not little holes in the top of most of his caps and so I cannot agree with you.

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QuoteOriginally posted by swanlefitte Quote
I saw a discussion today on why so my photos have blue and orange. "It's a fad."
I do not think it is a fad so I cannot support your statement. But I will not quibble over whether you saw a discussion today and I hope you keep taking blue and orange photos.
I knew a photographer once who took a blue and orange photo and it was nice.

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QuoteOriginally posted by Digitalis Quote
it wouldn't be surprising to find if Vincent Van Gogh had been taking the heart rate control medication based on Digitalis (which makes its first appearance in published medical literature in 1795).
I cannot condone this dangerously untethered propaganda. William Withering's 'An Account of the Foxglove' was first published in 1785. You propose Vincent Van Gogh's grandfather – Vincent Van Gogh – being born AFTER the publication of Withering's pioneering digitalis tome, but it was published four years PRIOR. I therefore cannot get behind your views on bokeh.


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QuoteOriginally posted by Thwyllo Quote
I mean imagine if Apple partnered to produce a mirrorless camera with this kind of effect capability
Pentax has long ago implemented this on the Q series. It is even available on the mode knob as BC (blur control)
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I emailed him and he said there were not little holes in the top of most of his caps and so I cannot agree with you.
Attached picture with 'holes' in the caps... it's very common
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QuoteOriginally posted by 169 Quote
I have a relative who suffers continual abdominal pain and they are not used to it.
Also, Mike was still troubled by arthritis on page 2.
Thankfully, I am used to it I don't like it, no sir - but I've grown accustomed to it and can usually "zone out" from the typical mild discomfort, such as it is (flare-ups aren't so easily dismissed, though). Amongst other things such as not kneeling for low-angle photos, well-adjusted meds help tremendously

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I worked with someone once who had this problem. They were old and their hair was very fine, and when you sat behind them you could see the fly-away hairs wavering slightly in convection currents and it was very distracting.

I am agreeing with what you're saying in principle, but I don't know how common a scenario this is. I have only ever known one person like this.
I've had two girlfriends in the last 10 years with "fly away hair", and my Mum's hair also "suffers" in this respect. I guess a professional portrait photographer would work with a stylist who'd deal with this using hairspray or something similar, but a typical smartphone user taking portraits out in the field wouldn't have that luxury (or would look awfully strange pulling out a can of hairspray and squirting a stranger's head with it ). For them, "fake" bokeh will likely show artefacts and simulated depth-of-field problems around those fly-away hairs - which won't matter for photos destined for social media, but would for anything larger...

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I do not think it is a fad so I cannot support your statement. But I will not quibble over whether you saw a discussion today and I hope you keep taking blue and orange photos.
I knew a photographer once who took a blue and orange photo and it was nice.
I put "It's a fad" in quotes because many agreed with that statement. I do not think any of those people had enough information to realize color temperature. The fad will last as long as the earth has sunsets.
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We should talk more about where are the holes in ball hats, and flyaway hair and the two girlfriends with it, and medication and body positions mitigating arthritis pain, and not squirting strangers' heads. I have learned much about these things from this thread. For the general good, can I ask the admin to retitle it:

“A Case Study in the Tendency of Discussions About Bokeh to Devolve: AKA Where are the Holes in Ball Hats, Flyaway Hair and the Two Girlfriends with It, Medication and Body Positions Mitigating Arthritis Pain, Correctly Dating Digitalis Literature, and Not Squirting Strangers' Heads"?

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