On 19/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >What I mean is the limited lightvalues a film can take. It can soon be too >light (my K2 only has 1/1000), but more sooner gets too dark to get any >decent image on film. With a camcorder I can go till I have only the light >of a matchstick. Of course the image changes in quality dramatically. But >were I to be ready to take pictures in all of those extreme situations, I'd >have to be carrying an awful lot of equipment and what's more, keep changing >it to suit the situation. > >A digital camera can and has overcome these light problems. Bless them. That >is certainly what I feel to be a very weak point of taking photographs.
When an artist picks up a pencil, will it be hard or soft? What informs that judgement? Partly it is the feel of the work he/she is wanting to produce, and how that work translates as a finished drawing. The artist has to have the knowledge of the pencils, the chalk, the paint. That technique has to be learned, it is not instinctive. The finished work appears as instinct and expression and cannot be taught. When a director makes a film, he has to know how to handle actors to get the best out of them, as well as knowing how to handle the way the camera records the scene, how it will look when finished, how he/she wants it to look. That technique most definitely has to be learned. The finished work appears as instinct and expression and cannot be taught. When a photographer shoots with film, he or she has to know what film to select, what lens to use, what exposure to set in order to record the scene. Sometimes he or she will know how to develop and print the picture. That technique must be learned. The resulting photograph is an expression that cannot be taught. When a photographer shoots digitally, he or she has to know all the technique that the camera allows, has to understand the processing of that image, the way it is delivered onto a medium of storage, and even sometimes editing that image and printing it. Techniques learned. Results expressions of self and ability and desire. All these techniques involve tools, from carpentry to cake-making. They are as easy or as difficult as you make them. They all involve effort in studying the technical aspect. Art hurts! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
