Now ... maybe her painting catches the scene better than your photo. Its even quite likely - if she is good. And maybe this particular scene is almost impossible to make a good photo of, without extensive image manipulation. This just shows the limitation of photography. The actual subject and the lighting situation is important for the possibility to make good photos.In other words, if you stood in front of her painting, you would "feel' the place, whereas my photograph, or ANY photograph, merely "records" it, and records in a flat tasteless manner. And while no doubt someone else could do a better job of photographing that corner, it's not a good subject..No photographer would even try.
The above sounds like your hedging....Now ... maybe her painting catches the scene better than your photo. Its even quite likely - if she is good. And maybe this particular scene is almost impossible to make a good photo of, without extensive image manipulation. This just shows the limitation of photography. The actual subject and the lighting situation is important for the possibility to make good photos.In other words, if you stood in front of her painting, you would "feel' the place, whereas my photograph, or ANY photograph, merely "records" it, and records in a flat tasteless manner. And while no doubt someone else could do a better job of photographing that corner, it's not a good subject..
The earlier post of two dogs was a good photo.
I like these shots. Very well done. Excellent.
Everything that a painter does is described as "Art." We might all call it bad art, we may trash it, but it's still art.
The problem is the selection. Some photogs like (and are proud of) all the images they take and have a problem with selecting the best ones. Some of them restrain themselves from posting. For others it is just natural reflex to dump everything from the hard drive on Flickr, PBase and link it from the forums. Not every visitor have time and endurance to sift through multitude of images, some of them looking like copies of another, but the "credential" is there for all to see. Rest don't seems to matter much.
If all would be very very good to your standards, they would be just average by definition...
Where shall I go, for example?
(I don't remember your pics, are they outstanding?)
There is no difference because every amplifier fulfills the Hifi standards and therefore transistor is better than tube as Bayer is better than Foveon
xactly, it is hard to make pictures with a technology which was not planned to be of use, though the principles behind seem to be close to natural within the first glance...
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I dont think its a contradiction.
WOA! Now I am not one of those that buys low oxygen square cables to get better sound. I dont believe in the golden ear high end mumbo jumbo.
This I dont get at all.
Hmmm ... I see what you mean. But .... I think you misunderstand what I wrote. The word average MIGHT mean that it is in the middle of some kind of scale of goodness. Thats was not my intention to say. I meant that it had no extra interesting values.
Lots of places. I dont save links.
Again, only the person creating the art can define it as "art". It is up to others to define the validity, quality or impact only.
Good point. I definitely fall into the "dump everything" category, since that's what my customers, and potential customers, need to see. Anyone going in there to see only good images is going to be very disappointed, or bored to death, .... maybe both. Maybe I need to post a warning.
Unless your name is Michelangelo?
Photography is always documenting. And as part of the craft we learn how and when to do this documenting.
Yes, I'm sure some would. Just as some would call art, anything you stick a frame around. In fact there are entire books written to justify the idea that anything you stick a frame around is art. I've read such books, and the authors should have paid me for finishing them.
All well and good Roland, but Photography, by my definition at least, creates nothing, and documents everything.
I took the following shot yesterday. Nothing wrong with it. A snap shot. Vaguely blew the highlights. Not much happening...
You have made your choice then. But its your choice. And that was my point.
