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Thanks, Randy. I am always glad to
expand my knowledge of the language. Thanks to your wife as
well. I am glad she gets a giggle out of our "serious"
conversations.
Don
On 9/13/12 3:56 PM, Randy Little wrote:
Well here is the whole translation
The
word "boke", pronounced "bok-ay", and usually written ぼけ or
ボケ, has a number of different meanings. It can mean stupid,
unaware, or clueless. (See 8.5. What
are some Japanese insults and swear-words? for
more.)
This
word is also used in photography for "out of focus", and has
come into English as "bokeh", with an additional "h" to show
the pronunciation. (See 5.5. What
English words come from Japanese? for more words
which have come from Japanese to English.)
In
double-act comedy, the "straight man" is called tsukkomi (ツッ
コミ) and the "funny man" is called boke.
The
Japanese also use boke to
mean "senility", and in such compound words as jisaboke (時
差ぼけ), "time-lag boke", meaning "jet lag", heiwa-boke (平
和ボケ), "peace boke", meaning a state of complacency
induced by an excess of peace, and tennen-boke (天然ぼけ),
"natural boke", meaning "airhead".
Boke is also the
name of a plant known in English as the Japanese quince or
flowering quince.
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Don
Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hmm, I lived in Japan for two years and am hardly an
expert on the language but the word "baka" was used for
crazy or foolish. "Bokeh" wasn't in common use as a
photo term then but it is defined as "blur" or "haze"
now. That could be "soft" I guess. I would imagine
your wife as a native speaker understands it better.
Would that be a slang term?
Don
Sorry for the short digression.
On 9/13/12 12:51 PM, Randy Little wrote:
I believe the term capture the
moment predates Digital by a pretty long time.
Its a bit OCD to be concerned about terms. How
many of you use the term BOKEH. Which in japanese
literally means Soft Mentally AS IN CRAZY. The term
used incorrectly in a pop photo article in 1998 but
some dude who wanted to coin a term. Every time my
japanese wife sees this she giggles. When you read
a Camera doc that uses the work Bokeh in English
thats not the word used in the Japanese text.
CAUSE ITS MEANS CRAZY.
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at
10:36 AM, Trevor Cunningham <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Capture a...
* moment
* lighting bug
* flag
* fugitive
* the neighbor's dog and remember your dreams.
I'm with Jan, I take/make pictures...although
now, I do prefer to say I engage in a
post-production workflow.
On 9/13/12 5:01 PM, Christopher Strevens wrote:
I think I called it
image capture first. Sorry! Fine art is image
capture really with a person as the capture
device. The main difference is the fidelity of
the image.
Sent from my Windows Phone
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From: Jan Faul
Sent: 13/09/2012 14:14
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators -
Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: Analog shmanalog
I don’t believe that we 'analog people’
capture anything. I was raised as a maker and
taker, and ‘capruing’ an image didn’t
come along until political correctness came
along.
Jan
On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:35 PM, YGelmanPhoto
wrote:
All this says
is that digital capture and analog capture
may have different results, but I've never
seen a comparison of the same scene between
the two methods created by the same (expert)
person. I'll bet such a comparison even then
will not settle the question.
Most of the arguments are made by devout
believers of one system or the other. . .
after all, why should they change their
opinion?
-yoram
On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Randy Little
wrote:
while great
images can be made on both there are very
distinguishable visual difference between
film and digital. Digital will always
capture in a linear fashion and thus high
lights and shadows will always have a
different feel then a photo chemical
process. While shadow quality might
improve over the next decade. Hight lights
in Digital will be an issue for a while.
HDRI capture can get them but they for
sure don't feel like film.
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com
<http://reel.rslittle.com/>
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
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On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:34 PM,
Herschel Mair wrote:
analog shmanalog... a great image is a
great image.
Jan you have some great images
and the process you chose to
make them is interesting but
secondary.
Great pics are made by
photographers not cameras. Nobody
asks the restaurant manager what
kind of stove the chef
uses...
If I find digital more inspiring
than film, then who's to
argue with that? And Vice versa.
The process that the
artist used is as interesting as
it contributed to the art.
Herschel Mair Photographer and
Retoucher Santa Fe NM 505
695 8450
<tel:505%20695%208450>
Art Faul
The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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