"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept"

[Darthfeeble]

I actually don' subscribe to the concept but this was just a happy accident.

 

[PICHA]

I do not know much so this will not take long. I figure content, composition, color, and interest are also important. Focus is most important when making engravings. Otherwise it is a variable. This, along with the other four, for me, must be accounted for but their importance is not always the same. If it were we could use a plug-in and all get great photos. But we cannot. And for this reason an out of focus photo can have impact. I have seen a lot of very much in focus photos that are in focus, period. You can count the gnat's eyelashes. So?

And here is my not so noble attempt with out of focus. The eggplant and tofu were delicious. First feed the eye.



Sony A7M II Sony 24 - 240, 35mm, f/4.5, 1/160, ISO 4000

It's tasteless, isn't it?

 

[Taipei-metro]

bike riding Church people working late hours (?)

Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California - USA


Image by Taipei-metro

Sony dSLR,
Sony 18-55

 

[Yokosuka_Mike]

Smoke and Money​

Sony A7III
Voigtländer 50mm f2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical (Sony E-mount) lens
Yokohama, Japan - October 2022
Image resized smaller than original​

 

[Greyscale]

Olympus XA4, Arista EDU 400 EI 800, Clayton F76 8:15 20C by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[CMur12]

Olympus XA4, Arista EDU 400 EI 800, Clayton F76 8:15 20C by Mike Novak, on Flickr

I like this, Mike.

How did you do it?

- Murray

 

[d_c]

Kyoto 2002, Leica M6 Kodachrome 200

 

[Greyscale]

I like this, Mike.

How did you do it?

- Murray

This was a happy accident. The shutter misfired or the meter was incorrect. Anyway, a much longer exposure than I anticipated. Then some major contrast adjustments in post.

 

[markjwyatt]

Two Trees, Dusk by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

 

[Deardorff38]

Voigtlander Perkeo ll at minimum focal distance.
Foma 200/Pyrocat. print on Ilford Classic FB

 

[Yokosuka_Mike]

Today​

Fujifilm X-H1,Voigtländer Macro APO-Ultron 35mm f2 (X-mount) lens
ACROS+G Film Simulation
Yokohama, Japan - January 2023
Image resized smaller than original​

 

[Dervla]

maybe



Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Winterland, San Francisco

Canon FTb, not sure what lens-maybe a rented zoom ( I know the neg s/b cleaned), December 16, 1978

 

[telenous]

I thought I was pin-sharp focused, my Jupiter 8 thought differently.

... by Alkis Plithas, on Flickr

 

[Arnold Layne]

 

[Bill Blackwell]

Leica M10-P
CV 40mm Nokton f/1.4 SC

When I owned this lens I just couldn't warm up to it; it was very low contrast and the bokeh was blotchy and nervous.
But when I look at the images now I kind of like it.

 

[Yokosuka_Mike]

Couple​

Fujifilm X-H1,Fujinon XF 33mm f1.4 lens
Classic Chrome film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - March, 2023
Image resized smaller than original​

 

[Dervla]

Richard Alpert (1931-2019) aka Ram Dass



Playing the cello as people leave the hall after his talk. He said he had always wanted to do that.

Herbst Theater, War Memorial Veterans Building, San Francisco

Canon FTbn and Canon FD 100mm f/2.8 SSC, June 17, 1980

 

[rover]

A Song Series 3 by Ralph Meliso, on Flickr

A Song Series 6 by Ralph Meliso, on Flickr

 

[markjwyatt]

Breaking Waves Rocks by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

 

[yossi]

Decisive moment 😅