{"id":107,"date":"2012-12-10T22:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:59:56","slug":"sharpness-is-a-bourgeois-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Sharpness Is A Bourgeois Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Sharpness is a bourgeois concept&#8221; said Henri Cartier-Bresson. Though he probably said it at least partially in jest, I think it is a very good point. Perhaps more now than ever. Digital photography seems to have driven many advances in image quality and while, as a photographer, this is hardly something to complain about; it has meant that some people have become fixated on technical issues to the exclusion of all else. First and foremost the photograph should communicate a story or an\u00a0emotion but too many people look at a photograph purely on its technical merits. I spent some time on the below photograph (trust me I did) trying to get exactly the effect I wanted and sharpness was definitely not something I was striving for. See some more images in this vein in the <a title=\"New\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/?page_id=95\" target=\"_blank\">New<\/a> gallery of the web site.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SAM0501-Edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108\" title=\"Bishopsgate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SAM0501-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Bishopsgate\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SAM0501-Edit.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SAM0501-Edit-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishopsgate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sharpness is a bourgeois concept&#8221; said Henri Cartier-Bresson. Though he probably said it at least partially in jest, I think it is a very good point. Perhaps more now than ever. Digital photography seems to have driven many advances in image quality and while, as a photographer, this is hardly something to complain about; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-decisive-moment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}