Ed, I'm inclined toward your point of view RE consensus about "correct" color reproduction. Once you can reproduce a color chart exactly I suppose you know that you will have gotten only as far as square one toward making pleasing color photographs. Artist/scientists and scientist/artists are a special kind of people. There in Taos (so close to Los Alamos!) you must see plenty of both. Often, it seems, the former makes art that should be in a trade exhibit. The later makes art that belongs in a lab. The exceptions are the people who draw inspiration from both and find something unique. The work of Eliot Porter, also a local familiar, must inspire you greatly. May your efforts be rewarding and instructive to us all. AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book FREE COPY http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Question > From: Ruey <tmi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, December 18, 2009 7:38 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Why is it that in earlier times science and art could coexist > comfortably and today so many artists seem scared to death of learning > any science and so many engineer-scientists find no value in art or > desire to create it? I wonder if this modern extensive degree of > specialization and complete distrust of the other or their knowledge, > hasn't a great deal to with our inability to solve the problems we face > in the world today? What could an instructor do to bridge that gap? > Ed Scott
