Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]*snip* > When we zoom way in on a piece of watermelon with our lens so you can > see the fur on the seeds and the pink stuff looks like huge clumps to > the extent that people don't have a clue what they are looking at we > have not created an abstraction. > We've created a SUBSTRACTION. That's mainly what cameras do and is a > photo thing. Abstraction is a painting or sculpture thing. I recall (and use) another term. When a photographer drills into a scene looking for the element within that scene that is turning him on and shoots it in a way that the context of the scene is lost and the attractive bit is made accessable to the viewer of the image that technique is called photo"extraction". (as in extracting the key element). I will now extract myself from this way deep philosophical discourse and get back to my first (@0500) cup-o-coffee) Jack McLain Tucson, AZ http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html