Yeah - if you want to make boring images, follow the rules. They "work" - of course. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: P�l Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 29. joulukuuta 2002 14:15 Aihe: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking >Who cares? The point is to make a pleasing image and the "rules" work. > >P�l > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:04 PM >Subject: Aethetics and clear thinking > > >> Cause and Effect >> >> There is something about the 'Golden Section', the 'Golden Triangle', the >> 'Golden Proportions' or 'Rule of Thirds' or any other name one cares to >> choose for these elusive photographic or pictorial qualities, that is >> unconducive to clear thinking. Pentax users, amongst the most intelligent of >> photographers, if only for their choice of lenses, are no better at sorting >> it out than anyone else. Why? Because Nature does not obey any mathematical >> rules. >> >> Numbers mean nothing to a virus particle (virion) or a crystal of gold, or >> the amorphous aggregation of crystals found in steel, or the bones of my >> leg. The arrangement of the capsomers that form the envelope of an >> icosahedral virion for example, is not such because of numbers, but because >> of the nature of the different capsomers themselves. Some are pentagonal >> others hexagonal. They fit together neatly. The shape is determined by their >> own sub-units and how they tend to join and the shape of these are in turn >> determined by genetic information. They are built upon genetic templates >> and their structure is determined by either RNA or DNA which carries the >> 'blueprint' for construction. We can now draw beautiful diagrams of how >> these all fit together and write mathematical formulae that predict how this >> comes about. Geodesic domes and Virus particles are similar in construction. >> Forgive me for being simplistic here. >> >> Now along comes a nutty Creationist who say's, "See how even the humble >> viruses obey God's Mathematical Laws of Nature?" He sits down and starts to >> calculate. This is how it usually starts. Numbers can ~only~ be used to >> describe what happens in nature, not to determine it: But even then only up >> to a point. In some cases with great accuracy, in others only approximately, >> most times not at all. >> >> To say that there is a mathematical rule for beautiful composition is like >> making a rule for my behaviour from the information (usually erroneous) that >> when I was born the planets were arranged in a particular way. Because of >> this fortunate, or unfortunate coincidence, I must needs do, or not, this or >> that, on certain days of the week, month or year because my existence and >> the course of my life will forever be determined by this load of crap. >> >> Make your pictures look good and forget about 'Golden' anything. You could >> spend a lifetime measuring masterpieces in museums and galleries around the >> world and constructing diagrams from them ... but it will only lead you back >> to square one. >> >> Don >> >> Dr E D F Williams >> >> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams >> Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery >> Updated: March 30, 2002 >> >> >> >
