Re: Digital Photography

[Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxx>]

Alan, pardon the over reactive moment.  There may have been one 
suggestion that digital imagers were not photographers or I may have 
inferred that.  Anyway, it kept the thread moving and growing.  I 
have only recently moved into digital after a lifetime of 
conventional, and some unconventional, methods and processes.  I 
have no particular ax to grind with either.  But I am falling in 
love with the digital world.  One can do so much there.  But, as 
with all creative processes, sometimes too much freedom of choice 
makes the job harder rather than easier.  An architecture professor 
of mine always said the toughest jobs would be those with the fewest 
set parameters.  Vacillators need not apply.
Don

lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Don,
>
> I don't see that anyone has privileged one method over another so far.
> Digital imagers are sooo sensitive :-0
>
> Seriously, I think there are important aesthetic distinctions to be made
> among various methods of doing photographs particularly between analog
> and digital.  Again, it doesn't mean one is better than the other.
>
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: Digital Photography
> > From: "Don Roberts" <droberts@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, August 06, 2004 8:01 pm
> > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
> > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This may be simplistic but "photography" means "painting with light"
> > or something to that effect.  Nowhere is the medium mentioned.  Why
> > should digital photographers then not have the same status as those
> > who employ film and paper?
> >
> > Bob wrote:
> >
> > > lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Bob  and Mark,
> > > >
> > > > I think digital photography is virtual photography.  I would say that
> > > > rather than being artists skilled digital photographers are
> > > > illustrators.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I think results are what count and jibes about methods to achieve them
> > > > are only for fun.  It is, of course, senseless to essentialize anything
> > > > or any one except in jest.
> > > > AZ
> > >
> > > I agree with this.....
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
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> >    Don Roberts  *  Bittersweet Productions  *  Iowa City, Iowa
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   Don Roberts  *  Bittersweet Productions  *  Iowa City, Iowa
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