Clear thinking?
I have been looking at nature for a long time - never seen any numbers or formulas
there. Why? Because they are man-made.
And if you are so clear thinkers you should have corrected the header long before I
did.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Aihe: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking
>Still a load of bunk no matter the thought or education behind it. There is
>no doubt that mathematics and physics were around long before we ever even
>thought of the terminology. Proof of this is everywhere you look.
>
>Relation to photography? Nothing and everything.
>
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>From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking
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>
>> Don,
>> Some very interesting and thoughtful posts. Thanks.
>>
>> I agree with those who say there is no "golden mean" in nature. Finding a
>> few examples as "proof" is like that famous list of coincidences between
>> Lincoln and Kennedy, or the way fortune tellers work ("I see the color
>> red...the color red has some importance for you..." "Hey, I used to have a
>> red car! How did you know that?").
>>
>> I can honestly say I have *never* paid the slightest attention to any of
>the
>> so-called "rules" of composition. Looking at pictures, the "rule of
>thirds"
>> is no more valid than the "rule of fourths" or the "rule of fifths" or any
>> other fraction. For that matter, there are thousands of interesting
>pictures
>> with the subject smack dab in the middle of the frame. And if pressed, I
>> could probably come up with several new "rules" which could be found to be
>> applicable to a number of successful and well-known photographs.
>>
>> If anything, oversimplified deconstruction of "composition" (strictly
>> speaking, photographers don't compose) keeps people from seeing. And if
>> anyone is beset by any of these "rules" floating about in their heads, I
>> would probably counsel them to get out and try their hardest to violate
>> them.
>>
>> --Mike
>>
