Some photographers who take certain categories of picture claim, often pretentiously, to be making a statement with them.
Consequently when people see a picture that they think may belong in one of those categories they often expect it to be saying something. More prosaically, when a picture makes a feature of text of some sort we naturally expect it to have some kind of meaning or message attached. This is why it is so often a mistake to include text in a photograph - it will distract the viewer from the picture itself because the viewer is trying to find a meaning. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of frank theriault > Sent: 27 June 2006 17:55 > To: PDML; Pentax-Discuss Mail List > 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? > > 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")? > > 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. > > 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
