Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find this discussion quite interesting, not so much for the film vs. digital aspect; as the capture/integrity/expression aspects. On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Chris Saganich wrote: > The shutter doesn't conclude the vision Sonny. When discussing transparencies; or the purest sense of perfect photographic technique with visioning value placement, composition and decisive moment on the film negative or positive - - the shutter does conclude the vision. The score has been written. Everything done after that relates to performing the score. > Concept of vision is brought into the processing in order to > reproduce the reality that was experienced. Here we move from the pure image capture to the subjective world of perceived reality and the enhancement there of. The very choice of B&W or color film (not to mention which color film) all move towards the painterly, the interpretive, the expressive and further and further from the "real." > If the image is altered by introducing painterly aspects then there > is a conceptual commingling where the artist is attempting to > purge the reality from the image because they can't deal with it or > something. I'd submit that removing motion, applying the still frame to 2 dimensional paper, whether in black & white, fuji color, velvia, kodak gold or whatever other emulsion has already conceptually commingled and purged - 'tis only a question of degree. And that will always be subjective. > Totally different from dodging and burning and contrast > manipulation. What is the artist bringing attention to, the > reality of the subject or his/her handwork? Always both. Always form and content. The viewer decides if it works; if it moves one to feel and or appreciate what the photographer has expressed. > The classic example is Adams use of value control both in the > camera and in the darkroom. His intention was to get far away from > the painterly concepts. I believe that Adam's extreme concentration on value control is quite literally brings the painterly concepts to photography - not in the pictorial sense - but in the control of technique intrinsic to the medium in question. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07