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Subject: Re: [Leica] dodging & burning vs leicas
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:14:22 -0900

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
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