> Some photographers who take certain categories of picture claim, often > pretentiously, to be making a statement with them.
Agreed. And some photographers don't get that statement. Me included, most times. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: What Were You Trying to Say? > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
