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Chasing bokeh: Fuji 50/2

Started Apr 19, 2018 | Discussions thread
John Gellings
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Re: Chasing bokeh: Fuji 50/2

Truman Prevatt wrote:

John Gellings wrote:

Truman Prevatt wrote:

TEAS wrote:

Does sterile mean it is sharp lacks distortion? I generally find that these vague, undefined words are meaningless in terms of scientific reality.

Photography is not a science - it is an art.

Photography certainly is a science as well as an art. Look at the rest of what you wrote after this... its all science. Photography can be used to make art, but its origins are certainly a scientific discovery and has its roots in chemistry and physics.

Photography like every other art has benefited from gains in scientific knowledge and technical innovation that might result - but so has painting, graphics arts, etc. But that does not make painting a scientific discipline. Most of the master painters worked with chemist of the time to get the paints they wanted. Some like Michelangelo was among other things an architect so had to use science to design his architecture but his architecture is not known for his scientific knowledge but for it's beauty.

Right, true... but photography goes a little deeper into science. Cavemen were not thinking of science when they painted on cave walls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography

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