On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:13 AM, JC OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > THEORETICAL CRAP? Screw you, this is REAL WORLD BASIC > photograhpy techniques. I would think that any photographer > needs to know how to control DOF. You cant just go > "take pictures" without some basic knowledge of "what > controls what" in your images. And the fundemental > knowledge of "what can be changed later and what can't" > certainly doesnt hurt either.
I think the point is that we don't need to know numbers, equations or theories to know that the wider the aperture the narrower the dof and vice-versa. Working with post-processing programmes lets you know what can be "changed later and what can't". I agree with you, BTW, that DOF is a function of camera, not processing, and the thought that these things can be applied or altered in photoshop is wrong-headed (but that's just me). But you can bang my head with all the numbers and theories you want, until I go do it over and over, I'm not going to "get it". Some people like the theory behind things, and that's fine, too. But we can't forget what the underlying theory is about: going out and taking photos! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
