[rollei_list] Re: "grains of salt" (was: Digital printing ...)
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:57:20 -0400
On Sunday, April 17, 2005, at 08:22 AM, Neil Gould wrote:
> Recently, you [Ardeshir] wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, April 16, 2005, at 08:44 AM, Neil Gould wrote:
>>
>>> I [...] find this discussion to be generally absurd because so far,
>>> it has omitted the critical factor that can differentiate digital
>>> from analog image capture: the content of the scene (Ritz cracker
>>> excepted)!
>>
>> Did anyone consider the possibility that the grains of salt on the
>> cracker in that advertisement were put there on a computer - that is
>> to say, AFTER the photo was taken?
>
> Certainly; that is why I made the conceptual connection between the
> "airbrush" crowd and digital photographers. Image manipulation, and
> the creation of composites that have no basis in reality are
> well-established practices in photography. Done well, the resulting
> images can be inspiring and motivating. As has been pointed out, those
> that can do such work can readily identify the artifacts of the media,
> analog or digital, while other viewers can't see them. I wonder if
> appreciation and/or enjoyment aren't negatively impacted by having too
> much information about the methods (the old sausage analogy applied to
> photography)? ;-)
Yes, good point.
My friend Paul Wyszkowski (see for example
<http://home.earthlink.net/~swpaul/gallery/e4big.html> and
<http://home.earthlink.net/~swpaul/feature/fb1big.html>), sometimes -
though not always - uses a camera to start his images
(<http://home.earthlink.net/~swpaul/gallery.html>), but doesn't call
himself a "photographer": instead he calls himself a manipulator of
images.
"Much of my work involves digital manipulation of images. Sometimes my
paintings are informed by original digital images. Many of my digital
images are derived from original paintings. But in the end it is always
the resulting image that matters, not how I arrived at it", he says.
Cheers.
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