Marnie, I just thought about the painter's possibility to create the picture after the light has come and passed. Your argument is better than mine. :-)
One experience of light I will never forget is spending some time looking at the Rembrandt portraits exhibited in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Until the rest of the party I travelled with dragged me away, actually... :-) Jostein At 03.01.2003 18:23:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Doesn't photography mean "painting with light?" > >A photography captures one moment in time, with light. > >A painting may capture more than a moment in time, and it is captured >with paint. How the light is represented is very much controlled by the >painter. One painting I painted has both a night sky and a daytime sky >in it -- in one surreal painting. > >So when it comes to the medium used to create the end product, yes >photography embodies the light. > >That is not to say some famous painters, like Van Gogh, haven't >represented light very well in paint. > >Doe aka Marnie > > >
