Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The shutter doesn't conclude the vision Sonny. Concept of vision is brought into the processing in order to reproduce the reality that was experienced. If the image is altered by introducing painterly aspects then there is a conceptual commingling where the artist is attempting to purge the reality from the image because they can't deal with it or something. Totally different from dodging and burning and contrast manipulation. What is the artist bringing attention to, the reality of the subject or his/her handwork? The classic example is Adams use of value control both in the camera and in the darkroom. His intention was to get far away from the painterly concepts. If he were shooting digital (which I believe he would be) his computer manipulations would parellel his darkroom manipulations. At 01:43 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: >On 3/12/08, amr3@uwm.edu <amr3@uwm.edu> wrote: > > > > > > I like the challenge of trying to get a perfect image from an > > imperfect world. With digital, any picture can be made perfect, so why > > even > > take pictures? > > > > I don't know about you, but before digital, I endeavoured to make my >picture look like I saw the scene when I snapped the shutter. I used >filters, yeah, even in the darkroom, to make the contrast what I wanted. >Sometimes I dodged, sometimes I burned. I even spotted. I even cropped. I'm >so ashamed. >-- >Regards, > >Sonny >http://www.sonc.com >Natchitoches, Louisiana >USA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, MS, Sr. Physicist Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049