Queen Victoria asked her miniaturist, Alfred Chalon, whether photography was a threat to the painter. "No, Ma'am", he replied. "The photograph cannot flatter".
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Roberts > Sent: 23 November 2007 15:08 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: FA 77mm Ltd. - An observation > > William Robb wrote: > > >> On Nov 23, 2007 10:02 PM, David J Brooks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> The one thing the teacher of the basic portriat class i took this > >>> spring kept saying, was that when taking ones portrait, > it is about > >>> the face, the look. Any imperfections should be there in > the photo. > >>> Thats who they are. > >> > >> I agree, but my "models" bitch & moan about looking old (to which I > >> reply "You are old" :-) > > > >If you are doing pictures for yourself, then do what you > want, but if > you > >are doing pictures for other people, then do what they want. If your > models > >are whining that your pictures aren't flattering, you should > probably > do > >what you can to improve their look for them. If all it takes is a > softening > >filter, then that's what you need to do. > >Dave, as a long time portrait shooter, I am going to go out > on a limb > here > >and say that your instructor was full of manure. > > The instructor was full of manure. And not only for aesthetic and > commercial reasons, but for scientific ones as well: Human > beings don't > recognize faces by fine details and sharp, detailed portraits don't > look like the way we remember the faces of people we know. > That's why the "portrait lens" has long been quite a different animal > form lenses intended for other purposes. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
