Landscape composition is everything. Weight and balance through a mixture of size and tone are employed to please the eye. All elements and their relationship to the others is critical. It is an intricate assemblage that touches a sweet chord and imparts instant harmony. The viewer thus enjoys the immediate impact of a clear message.
Jack --- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the commentary on yesterday's photo. While it was > being looked at and discussed, I was out for another walk and > couldn't resist a few more. ;-) > > I dislike the notion of trying to "defend" my photographs: I see no > reason to do so. And having read various discussions of 'art' on this > > mailing list in the past, I do not feel that it is a sensible venue > to engage in such a discussion. Consider the work that I show to be > for enjoyment and entertainment, or ridicule as the case might be. I > > capture and save all comments offered, they are all valuable to me, > and thank you all for them. Whether you like or dislike any > particular photograph of mine, or all of them, is not an problem to > me nor does it cause me any pain if you express your intense dislike > > for them. > > However, I do have a question to pose to Tom C: > > You occasionally post landscape photographs which, in your words at > various times: > 'Out my front door, I saw this fog in the trees and grabbed my > camera... ' > 'Driving on the way to town, the light was very nice and I thought > > this looked beautiful....' > etc. > > In other words, you are seeing something that you find lovely, > beautiful, intriguing ... not something that necessarily has any > "meaning", "message" or "story" ... capturing it well, and posting it > > for the enjoying and entertainment of others. You are responding to > something which you consider to have great natural beauty and be > worth sharing. You compose and focus it carefully, set the exposure > as well as you are able, and render it to the best of your ability. > You are acting as a photographer. > > How is this different from my being on a walk, camera in hand, and > out of the thousands of minute by minute impressions on my vision of > > the things around me, I see shapes, forms, curiosities of flotsam and > > jetsam that I find intriguing, beautiful, and worthy of sharing? That > > I spend ten or twenty minutes composing in the viewfinder, setting > focus, exposure, and capturing, then spend more time rendering as > well as I might ... acting as a photographer ... in order that I > might share them with you? > > If what I am doing "does not rely on the eye or skill of the > photographer or the quality of the image necessarily to be > successful", then the same must be said for what you are doing. > Whether the subject matter of my interest is appealing to you, > whether I have any "message" or "story" to tell with it, whether it > is representational or abstract is all irrelevant, just as it is with > > what you present. > > We are, in essence, doing *exactly* the same thing with our > individual perceptions of the world: seeing that which captures our > interest and sharing it with other people using photography as the > medium of that expression. Acting as photographers. > > What else might be made of it, well, that's beyond any purpose I have > > in showing my work to this subscriber community. > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/46c.htm > > Comments, critique, etc always appreciated. > > enjoy > Godfrey > > > -- > 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. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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.
