On 12/25/13, 6:42 AM, Jan Faul wrote: > Just raise your autofocus, autoexposure auto framing, auto-stitching > device without looking either through the finder or at the screen > with a magnifier and put your finger on the gorilla glass to produce > a great piece of “art” as well as the synthetic replicated sound of a > Nikon F motor drive. The Nikon F was a real camera which did not > accept phone calls to distract the photographer. I'll be damned. One of Jan's postings that I actually agree with. Must be Christmas. And what a day to be damned. Andrew On 12/25/13, 6:42 AM, Jan Faul wrote: > On Dec 25, 2013, at 4:34 AM, Dan Mitchell wrote: > >> >> Indeed you have missed the point of the shot - the musicians are >> not just any street band but a Salvation Army band, and are >> sitting directly under a sign which reads "Save up to half price". >> So its a contrast between a nominally religious festival with what >> it has become, a modern consumer festival. Not grabbed, very >> carefully aligned to get the sign in its prominent position. > > Not to get a rep for griping on Christmas, but by Gregory noting > “today’s standards” one no longer needs to really look at the > composition of images. > > “Today’s standards” tell the world’s half a billion “photographers” > that actually using the feature called “imagination” (which I alluded > to in a prior comment) is no longer needed due the unfailingly > automatic response to seeing something you believe you can turn into > memorable and great “art". > > Just raise your autofocus, autoexposure auto framing, auto-stitching > device without looking either through the finder or at the screen > with a magnifier and put your finger on the gorilla glass to produce > a great piece of “art” as well as the synthetic replicated sound of a > Nikon F motor drive. The Nikon F was a real camera which did not > accept phone calls to distract the photographer. > > Jan/Art/Prints > > > Art Faul > > The Artist Formerly Known as Prints ------ Art for Cars: art4carz.com > <http://art4carz.com> Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com > Greens: http://www.inkjetprince.com Camera Works - The Washington > Post > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/battlefieldparks/front_qt.htm > > ArtNet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan+w.-faul/ > > . > > > > >
