Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Can someone explain the term PRE-visualization? Is this visualization >before visualization? Or is it just simply "visualization?" > >If you visualize something, you are doing it before the act. If you >pre-visualize something, you are visualizing it before you visualize it >before the act. > >Merrium Webster doesn't seem to understand pre-visualize. > >Jim jim, i'll give it a shot, but will defer to the experts if they think i'm off base... as i understand it, previsualization, in the context of zone system photography, means not visualizing the scene before you see it, which under most circumstances would be logically impossible (quantities of single malt notwithstanding), but rather visualizing an image one is preparing to photograph according to how one would like to see it in the final print. the idea being that the photographer may wish to make shadows look darker in the print then they are in reality, or the highlights to be brighter than they really are, because that is the effect he is seeing in his mind. so, before taking the picture, he meters the shadows/highlights, compensates accordingly, then takes the shot. perhaps he even lengthens/shortens developping time, uses different chemicals to enhance/deemphasize grain, etc., so that the final print will capture the scene as he saw it in his mind *before* taking the shot, i.e. as he previsualized it. this is what i understand "previsualization" to mean. guy