It's all bourgeois BS. Just do what you enjoy and don't look to others for validation. If others like it and want to buy it, great take their money, if they don't who cares.
That's because it's film. Any picture that takes half an hour's alchemy and another half hour in a darkened room to even see, is bound to attract words to justify the effort. Otherwise we'd be using phones and sending them to Instagram in 3 seconds flat, and attracting three letter words of approval. Like Wow.One could likely make a substantial amount selling rocking chairs around here.
And sharpness makes you sigh. One might conclude you are a comical curmudgeon.One could likely make a substantial amount selling rocking chairs around here.
Last time I checked, neither the young nor the experienced had a monopoly on aesthetics, though I would give a nod to the young for fad and fashion.One could likely make a substantial amount selling rocking chairs around here.
Your picture is a good example of what I expect a lens to provide, and a good example of using a wide aperture to isolate and emphasise a part of a scene. I would not expect that performance from a pinhole, which has different virtues.Which highlights why this thread belongs in the "Ethics and Philosophy" sub-forum.
I see the question of the roles of resolution, edge contrast and macro-contrast (the components of what we subjectively perceive as "sharpness") and tonality as being more of a continuum - all just parts of a whole.
Choose a different tool, or a different setting on a tool that offers them, and change where your results fall on the continuum.
I am often quite happy to use a lens at its widest or smallest aperture, even if the performance at those extremes doesn't give me the same resolution and contrast as using it at a middle setting. In fact, I am often looking for results that would be impeded by that sharpness - at least in every part of the image.
An example where I wanted both "sharpness" and the lack of same:
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tell that to jim galli,Bokeh is a hipster concept.
tell that to jim galli,
he is as far from hipster ville as one could get.
he unleashed the bokeh movement with his website about IDK 12 years ago
the average age of people collecting and using these lenses is probably 65.
you could probably do a poll on the large format photography forum to do the math.
My Taylor-Hobsons are squinting in disapproval.he unleashed the bokeh movement with his website about IDK 12 years ago.
Tongue in cheek re-phrasing "Dealing in absolute... always leads to disastrous results."Dealing in absolute is poor practice, it can lead to disastrous results.
Discussing sharpness as a Bourgeois concept is a Bourgeois concept.Bourgeois is a sharpness concept.
Discussing sharpness as a Bourgeois concept is a Bourgeois concept.
LOL they just recycle old fads and fashionsLast time I checked, neither the young nor the experienced had a monopoly on aesthetics, though I would give a nod to the young for fad and fashion.
My Taylor-Hobsons are squinting in disapproval.
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