[pure-silver] Re: At long last you can watch Long Live Film
- From: Bill <billtech@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:41:16 -0500
I was going to agree with you about “image” (I do agree that it’s gilding the
snapshot in an attempt to be…arty?) but then I thought i’d look up “image”. The
Oxford English Dictionary says image is:
1a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
a visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other
device, or displayed on a computer or video screen.
So, based on that, I’d say we make images. My splitting of hairs occurs when I
say that I don’t “take” pictures, I “make” them.
-Bill
On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee
<michaelandpaula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, we do not "shoot." We "make."
>
> We also do not make images. We make photographs. Images exist on either a
> ground glass or on a computer/other screen of some type. A photograph is an
> object—usually two-dimensionally flat, but not necessarily so. Anyone who
> makes digital capture and never makes prints cannot be called a photographer
> because they do not make photographs. They might be called image makers,
> however.
>
> Photographers who call their photographs "images" are being factually
> incorrect. To me using "images" instead of photographs is an (often
> unconscious) attempt at being high falutin.
>
>
> On 11/18/13 3:05 PM, Bill wrote:
>> I half-agree. I agree that we make pictures, or images, but I do think that
>> we shoot them. The thing is that “shoot” is only one step in the process.
>> “Fire” isn’t much good without “Ready..Aim…”, and shoot isn’t much good
>> without “Meter…Set…Compose…” Then, after the reaady-meter-set-compose-shoot
>> sequence comes the
>> develop-stop-fix-wash-dry-enlarge-crop-expose-develop-stop-fix-wash-dry
>> sequence. So, for me, “shoot” is a perfect description of 1/125th of a
>> second of the whole process (with medium speed film and good light).
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/18/2013 11:41 AM, Ken Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Shooting… shoot…. shot ?????
>>>> Its almost enough to make an old man weep
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>> I agree. We make pictures, we don't take or shoot them.
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S. It make me shutter ...
>>>
>>>
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