Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I forgot to mention that the analogy fails even within music itself. Take for example jazz; the score hardly seems like the definitive document. Classical music with the rigors in its notations works better for the analogy. Anyway, I look at the analogy as an illustration of how the 2 stages of composing/negative producing and performing/printing are related and yet very independent of each other, offen done by different people, and most importantly, each offering its choices in the creative process. I do not look at it so much as a statement of the negative as the definitive document. And if we pursue the analogy a bit further where does that leave the photographer ? In the exposure/develop/print photographic chain, what is the music equivalent of exposure ? - Phong Phong wrote: > Paul Hardy Carter wrote: > > > > Do I really insist? Oh yes, of course I do. Frightfully sorry for > > boring you by doing so! > > > Since you insist :-) > > The analogy works differently depending > on whether you look into the creativity process > in the production of the negative or the production > of the print. > > The analogy does not work for me for color > photography because there is hardly any > creativity in (my and I suspect most others') > darkroom work to produce the color negative. > Even in the printing stage, darkroom color work > is so unwieldy that I do not know any photographer > who puts much creativity there. Digital interpretation > with the instant feedback offers much more > potential for creativity, and I know a lot of people > who spend quite a bit of time there. In that > respect, the analogy works better for digital > than for color printing. > > The RAW file is as definitive a document as > the B&W negative to me. The analogy works better > here from the point of view of the printer/musician > but not so well for the film developer/composer, > as it does not with the production of a color > negative. > > Finally, let me say I am sorry to have appeared > dismissive, if I have. I actually have thought > about this analogy quite a bit before; it just does > not work for me. But I leave my mind open. > > Cheers, > > - Phong > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information