Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry- An interesting and thought provoking article; the last sentence reminds me that reality, whatever else it is, is certainly subjective. The making of a photograph is the planning and execution of a mental construct subject to manipulation by the photographer; painters have done this for centuries. Note Vermeer's classic The Little Street: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-2860.z The windows in the center are set impossibly close to the building's corner, for example. I suppose the question is "How much manipulation is acceptable?" While peer review may attempt to answer that question, the outcome of that review will evolve. Using the painting analogy once again, it's amazing the Impressionists weren't drawn and quartered given the nastiness of the reviews they received when they debuted. Personally, I don't care to engage in drastic manipulation (such as "move that car from here and place it there" sorts of things); I believe that reality, as subjective as it is, presents the careful observer with endlessly interesting opportunities. Those opportunities are what I am looking for. I gave up photography in the mid-90's as I thought it was too limiting a medium of expression and started drawing and painting. My thought was wrong. Even though I don't engage in wholesale manipulation with the computer, the only limits reality, as I see it, presents to me are imposed by my imagination. I'm not not terribly articulate, I know, but... Wendy On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > David Pogue, tech columnist for the New York Times has a must read article > on the limits of photography. It touches on many of the items we have > considered on the LUG. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/technology/personaltech/25pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cir > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >