Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why should it always be hard to be good? If it really would be about that, then you are appreciating the effort of making a photograph more than the photograph itself. Do you like a painting because it was hard to make it or because of what's on the canvas? Do you like a painting because it's a perfect reproduction of reality, or because of the interpretation of that reality by the painter? It's exactly the same. Just a different technique. Another question: B.D. just showed us a wonderful series of photographs, reporting style. Amongst them is a beautiful shot of a laborant seen through a petri dish. It is obviously 'staged': the photographer interfered in the reality, asking the lady to hold the petri dish in a certain way, to be able to shoot it through the dish. It's a constructed photograph, too. Nonetheless it stays a beautiful shot, showing how B.D. 'saw' that moment. IMO making or taking pictures is all about the interpretation of a situation. A real photograph does not exist. Great stuff to talk about somewhere in a good bar with good, uninterfering music on the background ;-) Op 7-mei-06, om 18:14 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven: > I don't think making real images is only related to reportage. It > is, in my opinion, much harder to make real photographs that to > construct them. Even in the days before Photoshop there were > methods of making unreal look real. Of course, it is just a > personal thing and in no way detracts from your efforts...A nice > "Magritte". > > Walt > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> Which brings us back to the once and a while popping up basic >> discussion about photography: does making a photograph is less >> good than taking one? >> Why should one know how a photograph was made, unless if it's to >> check that it's not messing around with facts? Which only has a >> good purpose if it's about reportage IMO, where the only issue is >> to reproduce reality. >> >> >> >> Op 7-mei-06, om 17:50 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Philippe: >>> >>> Damn, why did you have to tell us that? I was a little perplexed >>> by the scale but assumed the moon just looked bigger in your >>> part of the world. First rule of thumb for any Leica shooter is: >>> >>> 1. Even if I fake it I will deny it with such conviction I begin >>> to believe myself. >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>> Don: Margritte is a Belgian surrealist painter who used the >>>> moon (and clouds) a lot in his work. >>>> Luis: it is a double exposure, if one could still call it that >>>> in the PS era. No retraceable pixels on the dark side though. >>>> >>>> Thank you all that already looked and commented, >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Op 7-mei-06, om 16:24 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: >>>> >>>>> Philippe, >>>>> I don't know about Magritte, but still a pleasing composition. >>>>> >>>>> Don >>>>> don.dory@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 5/7/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Dunno... >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.fullflavor.be/photography/_DSC0124.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> Comments are welcomed. >>>>>> Thanks for looking, >>>>>> Philippe >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>>> information >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>> information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >