Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to everyone who has written to me personally or posted an answer to the LUG regarding my message below. My wife enjoyed them and appreciated them all and I think we now have an understanding about this. Perhaps not entirely, as I believe she still feels that it may not be "fair" to do all this manipulation, but I know that she is more accepting of what AA and others did/are doing and why they did/are doing it. Now I guess it's safe for me to break out the Photoshop Elements I recently purchased and go to work! ;-) Take care, Ted in Olalla - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV > > 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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ginex, Mike" <mginex@panynj.gov> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:26 AM > Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV > > > > I was truly impressed and inspired by the AA show, but I too feel his > photos > > are somewhat clinical. I have always felt there was something > unnatural > > there. Maybe if I someday go to Yosemite, I'll change my opinion. > > > > M.G. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:51 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV > > > > > > If you'd seen 6 ft under you might not have thought so, Ernie...;-) > > > > I find myself in the somewhat unusual category of having great > admiration > > for AA as a photo technician and "inventor," and very little regard > for him > > as a > > "photographer." His development of the Zone System and his abilities > as a > > manipulator of light, in the field and in the darkroom, were great > technical > > achievements. That said, however, I find his photography sterile > incredibly > > predictable. I can't blame the Estate for the monsoon of posters, > etc. - > > AA's photos ARE posters. They're "beautiful," and if they inspire > people to > > want to protect the environment then they are truly valuable. But, > IMO, they > > lack ambiguity and any sense of imagination. > > > > But I stress this is my opinion - nothing more, nothing less - and it > is > > certainly a minority view. > > > > B. D. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of > > enitka@twcny.rr.com > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:36 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV > > > > > > I like many others found the show to be awe inspiring- as much for the > > photography as for the celebration of > > one person's efforts to save the environment. I have always been a > fan of > > AA. What suprises me is the way he > > is sometimes disparaged in some photographic circles. The negative > reaction > > that he generates is difficult to > > understand. I think much of it may be not so much his photography or > him > > but the way his art has sometimes > > been foisted onto the general public as the "only real american > > photographer". Mind you this is not my opinion > > but the effect of 1] being very very talented and 2] having an > agressive > > Trust organization to promote things > > after death. I believe this maybe what some object to. Much like > Frank > > Lloyd Wright - except in this case FLW > > was not a very nice person ( my take of him) but his architecture is > sooo > > wonderful. > > > > The show was worth missing 6 feet under - my wife was sent into the > other > > room to record all the plot lines in > > 6FU. > > > > ernie nitka > > > > > > 4/22/02 8:46:00 AM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > > > > >In a message dated 4/22/02 1:45:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > >red735i@earthlink.net writes: > > > > > >> If you did not see the show, you missed the most inspirational 1 1 > /2 > > hours > > >> on phtotgraphy. Try to get a video from a friend. > > > > > >Yes, Frank, also a magnificent journey of the human spirit and an > accurate > > >description of one aspect of the American national psyche that most > people > > >miss. I spent four months during the summers of my 14th and 15th > years > > >working in the Rocky Mountain West and the feeling for the western > > wilderness > > >has never left me. > > > > > >My wife missed it and as PBS sells the video for $19.95, I'm getting > a copy > > >for her. > > > > > >Seth LaK 9 > > >-- > > >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 > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > 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