I understand spontaneous reactions that are born of habit and familiarity. But they are, and should be, secondary to truth and perceptive criticism. Photography operates on many levels. It can be a way to record what happens, as it most appropriately is in photo journalism. It can be a medium that depicts what's there within the limits of film and digital sensors. And it can grow to include all that which the mind can conjure. It can expand to mimic the capabilities of eye and mind, which can fill in the blanks when limits are exceeded. It can be a tool used to create impressionist renderings of a scene. All of these are valid and of worth. I just don't like to see a photo rejected because it doesn't meet someone's expectations of what a photo should be. A photo can be many things. And if it pleases the eye and causes the intellect to interpret that which is seen, then it is certainly art. Paul On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Ira H. Bryant IV wrote: > > It's not a value judgement, it's an unconscious reaction. Like a > musician listening to a piece played in a alternate tuning. He > expects the notes to be a certain distance apart, and when they are > not, it can be jarring. Is what he is listening to still music? > Of course it is. Can he train his mind to appreciate it? Most > likely. But changing the way your brain looks at things is easier > for some than it is for others. Personally, I might not know a > piece was written using a different scale unless someone told me. > > Ira > > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:09:00 -0400 > Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do you say, no, no to impressionist art? This is art by any measure. >> Paul >> On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:03 PM, Ira H. Bryant IV wrote: >>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:41:17 -0700 >>> "Tim Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm really having trouble getting used to HDR. Yeah, that's a >>>> lovely >>>> set of colors and shapes, but there's a little guy at the back >>>> of my >>>> brain saying "No! No!". Hmm.... -T >>> >>> Yeah, I'm the same way with action movies. Things explode and >>> crash and fly around, but the engineer in me can't quit saying >>> "Things don't really move that way, the stuff should be flying in >>> the other direction." I can let the thought go, but there is an >>> uncomfortable feeling that I can never seem to make go away. >>> >>> Ira >>> >>> -- >>> Ira Bryant >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > -- > Ira Bryant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > 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.
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