The question you posed is indeed "What is a good picture?" a sibling to "What is art?" ...
Let the debate commence (again) ! Godfrey On Sep 13, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Rebekah wrote: >> You need to study the compositional aspects of many of those >> pictures. > > the lack of composition was my point > > On 9/13/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You need to study the compositional aspects of many of those >> pictures. >> Sometime it takes more than a quick glance. What looks like a >> snapshot may >> only look like that because you don't know what work went into the >> composition. >> >> Anybody can take a picture of a leaf laying on a dirty sidewalk also. >> There's millions of leaves laying on dirty sidewalks all over the >> USA and >> other parts of the world. Taking a picture of one of them does >> not make it >> art. >> >> The fact is people like beautiful photographs of beautiful places >> because >> beauty is almost universally appreciated. >> >> Tom C. >> >> >>> From: Rebekah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> A lot of the pictures on there seem like crisp snapshots of pretty >>> things rather than good photographs. Anyone can take a well focused >>> picture of something pretty, but is it really worthy? I don't know. >>> Perhaps we're just back to the "art" discussion. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
