Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the very act of shooting in black and white alters reality... > kyle cassidy wrote: >> >>> My wife was watching and after seeing him dodging and altering the negs, >>> and hearing the narrator say that the finished product was highly >>> manipulated and often much different than the original subject, which if >>> seen as taken might be quite plain and boring. >>> >>> She then commented, "I am disappointed. I don't think that's right -- >>> after all, you keep telling me you wanted the Leica and that wonderful >>> lens so your photos would have that beautiful glow and be truly >>> representative of what you saw. Explain this to me!" >>> >>> Help!!! ;-) >>> >>> Ted in Olalla >> >> easy ted. artists don't merely represent the world around them, they change >> it to fit their view. as we've seen in the past, a forensic photographer or >> a crime scene photographer or many types of scientific photographers need to >> represent what is actually there. this goes for news photographers as well. >> adams was none of those. he was an artist who happened to use a camera. the >> final image was manipulated to show it "as it should have been" not as it >> was. >> >> kc >> > > > Ansel used heavy filtration when shooting to alter and enhance that view > as well. > The black and white world as first altered with deep red or green > filters is not what you see when you stand there. > Why should it be? > > Why not have a landscape be as dramatic as possible? > > Unless you book is called "The Banal Landscape." > > We want skies to not just NOT be washed out. But have some dramatic > darker tones and texture in them. > VERY much what you don't see when you stand there unless you had dark > Polaroid sunglasses on. > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html