A great question knarF. My responses (YMMV) interspersed below. Kenneth Waller
----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: What Were You Trying to Say? > Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions > along the lines of the above subject line. > > Which got me to thinking: What difference does it make? I very often > take photos which, ~at the time I take them~, I have no idea "what I'm > trying to say". I just take them, look at them later, and if I like > them, I print them. > > Is that wrong? No not at all. Some images stand on their own just by the content of the image - i.e. a beautiful sunset - I'd like to share this with you. With other images the messages are not so direct. > > Why does no one ask that question when they see a gorgeous photo of an > equally gorgeous sunset? What does a sunset have to "say" (except > perhaps, "isn't this beautiful")? Exactly! > > I'm not being critical of Boris' two questioners, or in any way > implying that they ought not to have asked the questions, I just don't > understand why I see it asked so often with regard to some > photographs. I asked Boris in an attempt to understand what he was trying to say so that I could understand the image, perhaps I had missed something. > > cheers, > frank > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
