It's probably better to use the term "photograph" rather than "image"
when we're speaking of the specific pursuit of Photography. It fits
the context better.
So, what aspects of producing a photograph do I enjoy the most?
I prefer the exercise of seeing. It's not exactly composition, that's
a more structured endeavor that happens after seeing and becoming
aware. Seeing and being able to exact capture of the seen scene at
the right moment is the majority of the art to me.
I enjoy the work of composition both at the time of making the
exposure as well as at the time of rendering the exposure into a
photograph, and I find there is compositional work of nearly equal
importance done at both times.
I enjoy the challenge of transmuting the exposure, the capture of
what I saw into a photograph that expresses the emotional impact of
what I felt, how the scene affected me.
Regards the technology of that transmutation, the production process,
it is mostly irrelevant as to what I prefer. I use that which nets me
the greatest advantage. A long time ago, it was film and developer,
enlarger and printing on photosensitive paper in a darkroom.
Yesterday it was film and developer, scanner and image processing
software. Today, it is digital capture and image processing, pigment
ink printer. I expect things will change in the future.
Seeing, capturing, rendering, expressing. That's what I prefer to do
in producing a photograph.
Godfrey
On Mar 30, 2006, at 6:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's been some interesting "dialog" about preferences.
So I thought it might be good to put things into a more
civil
format.
So here's the question: What aspect of producing an
image do you
enjoy the most?
Composition? And what type?
Processing (chemical or computer) ?
Production (actually making the print) ?
Or something else? And what is it that you find fulfiling?
(I'm not asking about medium at all, because that's just
so much
"stuff".
It's the product we look forward to seeing but the process
getting there
has its share of fulfillment as well.)
Personally, I enjoy the composition (posing people) and
printing.
The printing is definitely the most work to get the right
product.
But I find an excellent print to be worth every minute.
Collin
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