Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

On 5/25/05, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you were the anti-focus league leader, Frank :)... Kidding, sorry... Well, I wouldn't say I'm the leader, but focus isn't as important to me as it seems to be for others. To put it another way, a strong enough image that missed

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Shel Belinkoff wrote: A scosh is a term that means just a little, but by no definite amount. How does it relate to a smidgen? More, less or about the same? ERNR genuinely interested

Re: Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

From: E.R.N. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/25 Wed PM 12:31:44 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PAW: Etude in Soft Shel Belinkoff wrote: A scosh is a term that means just a little, but by no definite amount. How does it relate to a smidgen? More, less

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Scosh (or skosh) was picked up by American servicemen around the time of the Korean War. It's derived from the Japanese word sukoshi. The first recorded use of the word was in 1951. It remained a chiefly military term through the 1950s and '60s, and spread into more mainstream usage in the '60s

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Both terms mean about the same, although smidgeon (sometimes spelled smidgen) means a tiny, almost undetectable amount, is usually a scosh. Shel [Original Message] From: E.R.N. Reed A scosh is a term that means just a little, but by no definite amount. How does it relate to a

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

.. is usually considered to be a scosh smaller than a scosh. Shel [Original Message] From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Date: 5/25/2005 8:47:16 AM Subject: Re: PAW: Etude in Soft Both terms mean about the same, although smidgeon (sometimes spelled

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

I have this hunch that the word came about during WWII - the Japanese word sukoshi (pronounced just about like scosh), means little or small amount - my thinking is that the GI's picked it up from there and it wormed it's way into American english. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, May 25,

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Thanks Bruce and Shel. I have never heard of the Japanese origin of scosh, but I recognize that many US servicemen were stationed in Japan after WWII and certainly during the Korean War. (My father and uncle were among them.) Regards, Bob S. On 5/25/05, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

PAW: Etude in Soft

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting... Boris

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting... Boris Whooo, boy! I can't even read the headlines on that paper, it's so soft! ;-) keith whaley

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

In a message dated 5/24/2005 11:20:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting... Boris Whooo, boy! I can't

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/24/2005 11:20:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting...

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

On 5/24/05, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting... Doesn't really work for me, Boris. It's not so much the softness of focus, but what the

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Hi Frank, It's just that glow that I find so enticing. Perhaps a scosh less might be an improvement, but as it is, it lends an ethereal and diaphanous quality to the photo, moving it away from the more typical photo and giving the image a sense, or feel, beyond the subject matter and

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PAW: Etude in Soft Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Hi! Whooo, boy! I can't even read the headlines on that paper, it's so soft! ;-) Neither can I! ;-) Boris

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

Hi! It's just that glow that I find so enticing. Perhaps a scosh less might be an improvement, but as it is, it lends an ethereal and diaphanous quality to the photo, moving it away from the more typical photo and giving the image a sense, or feel, beyond the subject matter and composition.

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Hi! Doesn't really work for me, Boris. It's not so much the softness of focus, but what the light seems to be doing that I find bothersome. Hard to explain, but it seems that there's light coming around the edges of some of the objects in the frame, like the arm and shirt of the subject. I'm

Re: PAW: Etude in Soft

A scosh is a term that means just a little, but by no definite amount. Shel [Original Message] From: Boris Liberman Shel, what is it scosh less???