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- Category: Photography
- Styles: Landscapes / Scenery
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- Uploaded: February 24th, 2009
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7 months ago LuminousNature says: Decent composition but a decent polarizing filter would have taken the shot further.
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7 months ago Deerhawk says: "All you are doing is documenting, nothing more"
Documentation; Presenting facts objectively, without edit or ficticious matter... a photograph to furnish information or support... a creation that is a visual rendering, a record, enacting a story by a sequence of images. Yes, I document. So do you. Artistic; Beautiful, pleasing, original, very good, subtle, gratifying, attractive, delightful, agreeable This photo is all of this and more. "This is beautiful, I want to be there"....this is the response I was looking for when I composed this image. EOD I will overlook the blatant misgivings of the rest of your post, for I feel the boot in your mouth and the egg dripping from your face is punishment enough. "We should never deny the power of intuition or hesitate to follow it's revelations. It is essential that the Artist trust the mechanisms of both intellect and creative vision. the conscious introspective critical attitude has no place in the luminous moments of creative expression. What mechanism of the eye and mind selects patterns and relationships in the unfamiliar world about us, composing them as expressive images?" It is our "artistic" side!
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7 months ago LuminousNature says: It is now perfectly clear that you are truly lost in your own egotism.
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7 months ago Deerhawk says: When I climbed out of the canyon to that spot above the river and captured this image, the end result you see is as true a representation of what was happening. There is no "Fluff" here, no extra "trying to make the image more than what it should or could be" The image does not 'Lie"...You would ask me perhaps to make it?
I would say to you, leave your gadgets at home and try shooting "straight glass" for a while. Do you shoot under extreme conditions often? I do on a regular basis, and all images are shot in Natural Light/Natural Conditions... No compromise! You speak of the Aesthetics of the image somehow being limited. There is no "limit" that has been put on the beauty or characterization of this image. This is as close a representation to what was put before me as possible. I learned long ago, if it's 100 degrees, bright sun, a ton of reflection, no wind....then I want to convey that in the image, not some "pimped out" version of what I think others might think the image "should or could" be. I could use a strike indicator as well when I Fly Fish..... yeah, right.
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7 months ago LuminousNature says: "the end result you see is as true a representation of what was happening. There is no "Fluff" here, no extra "trying to make the image more than what it should or could be" The image does not 'Lie"...You would ask me perhaps to make it?"
I am not asking you to lie, I am asking you to create an image that hit a certain aesthetic ideal or responds to a real artistic call. All you are doing is documenting, nothing more. A polarizing filter is not a lie, it is tool to make the camera see a different set light. You are not changing the scene; when you frame the shot you are choosing what to look at, when you use a polarizer, you are choosing what light you look at. "I would say to you, leave your gadgets at home and try shooting "straight glass" for a while. Do you shoot under extreme conditions often? I do on a regular basis, and all images are shot in Natural Light/Natural Conditions... No compromise!" I shoot with filters or not when appropriate, and post process according to my taste or goals. And yes, I have shoot under extreme circumstances (blizzards, storms with tornadoes, deep into the mountains) but who really cares? When you look at an image only what is in it is presented, not what is behind it or the struggle that went it. Focusing on 'the struggle' is plebeian. Stop being pompous and thinking that this supposed gear purity makes you any better. The end result is what matters, not the camera, not the struggle, not whatever inane rules that you choose to limit your creativity with.
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7 months ago Deerhawk says: Bottom line...I don't use filters of any kind, preferring instead to shoot in all natural light. It's harder I'll admit. I refuse a lot of shots in the field because of this decision. But each image I do capture, the conditions under which they are composed come to mind. This 10 day Cali trip was awesome, but it was taken during one of the hottest July's on record for Southern Oregon/ Northern California. Every day was reaching in excess of 100 degrees, some like this were around 103-105 at this time in the afternoon (shot around 2pm) With the Sun almost directly overhead and the reflection from the rock and flora coupled with the heatwaves rising from everything (virtually NO wind) created conditions about as extreme as you can get. I had to shade the camera with my hat as to not toast it while I was setting up the shot. At camp each evening when I downloaded, I was pleasantly surprised at the images I HAD managed to retrieve. Many Photographers I know would never even think of bringing out their equipment in situations like this. My camera is a workhorse. I couldn't have it any other way...but she shoots by her self, no crutches!
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7 months ago LuminousNature says: So you are choosing to limit the aesthetic value (in the least) achieved in this image by purposefully not using the tools that were developed for the purpose of taking such shots?
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