Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I quite like them, quite a change from photoshopped, smoothed skin - > like Oliver Goldsmith, who commanded the artist commissioned to paint > him: > > "I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like > me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, > pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never > pay a farthing for it." > > Incidentally, this is where the phrase 'warts and all' is said to have > originated. > > Cheers > Jayanand I agree with Jayanand's general position; I've FOR IT - and this is simply cutting edge modern portraiture NOT done by photogs in the portrait section of the yellow pages working in strip malls but the commercial photographers, photojournalists and fine art photographers toward the front of the pack. The it's been around long enough its heading toward clich? that its about due for the full circle treatment. And we start seeing the fuzzies again. Its been a long enough. I hope not. But a re take on photo-secession Pictorialism could go over well by somebody. Not me. On the camera lists we always still hear the half baked advice about never using a lens younger than the model and the general advice that a "portrait" lens is less corrected, lower contrast, less resolution than a general purpose lens. With the reality long being that you use the sharpest contrastiest best lens you can put your hands on and it doesn't matter if you're shooing trees, clouds or faces. You want to see everything. The truth is in the details. Mark William Rabiner