Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> But when I photograph outside a studio on the street there is > detail, light, > subjects I can't select that I must include whether I like it or not. > Of course you can - a photograph always includes categorical edges - a frame - and thus an excluding of things - and ours is the choice of what we exclude - each and every time we make a photograph. (even the light - you can change it with filters, with aperture or even choice of film - the same scene will look very different if you chose colour negative as opposed to colour transparency. And as for black and white - you chose to remove one of the most fundamental characteristics of all objects; their colour) Every photograph is always, by it's very nature, an abstraction. tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html