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On 11/06/2005, at 6:12 PM, karl shah-jenner wrote:
out of the blue, someone who has no connection with this group just
sent me
a link to this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/technology/circuits/
08schiesel.html?ex=12
75883200&
:-)
"On the screen was a ..picture of a John Kerry rally ..which Mr.
Burnett
shot with a Canon 20D digital camera, the same camera used by
thousands of
other professionals around the world. Not surprisingly, the picture
looks
like thousands of others that were shipped around the globe during the
campaign.
The colors are bright. Every part of the image is crisp, so crisp
that just
picking the minuscule figure of Mr. Kerry out of the huge crowd
takes a
"Where's Waldo?" moment.
And then Mr. Burnett flipped to a photograph taken seconds later
with the
ancient Speed Graphic. Suddenly, the image took on a luminescent
depth. The
center of the image, with Mr. Kerry, was clear. Yet soon the crowd
along
the edges began to float into softer focus on translucent planes of
color.
The effect is to direct the viewer's eye to Mr. Kerry while also
conveying
the scale and intensity of the crowd. In accomplishing both at the
same
time, the old-fashioned photograph communicates a rich sense of
meaning
that the digital file does not."
k
