I was being ironic. :-)
cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Don Guthrie <[email protected]> Sent: April 6, 2012 4/6/12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Time for eye protection I was thinking something along those lines myself, Igor. If we are joshing about over saturation - it is a fine example. Obviously it is not a documentary photo. But I don't think we should hold ourselves to journalistic standards. Landscape photographers are not street photographers. The more I look at it I think it is a successful picture of what the taker wanted to see. It is also something I might want on my wall. So yes as Frank said it may be art even fine art. > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:38:05 -0400 (EDT) > From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Time for eye protection > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > > I am sure many PDMLers would disagree with me. I might disagree myself. > But I would like to suggest that one should look at this image differently: > It is not a documentary/landscape photo. It is a different genre. > It is probably not even just a photo (as a genre). > > Quite often you can see some paintings in a similar "HDR"-like style. > A good examples is the paintings of La Boca, the neighborhood of > Buenos Aires where Tango started. > People create images (based on photos) of that area in a similar style, > see, e.g. here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_La_Boca_-_Caminito_-_200807i.jpg > and here: > http://goo.gl/ZhZVe > > The interesting thing to me is that almost nobody who responded on this > thread has actually said what was wrong with the image in question. > I guess the assumption is just because it is not natural. It is a > philosophical question is whether the art has to be realistic. > > It reminds me how people had criticized the new, non-orthodox styles > in fine arts (e.g. impressionists, abstractionists, etc.). > -- 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. -- 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.
