Are We Photographers?
Aug 29, 2018 11:54:25 #
Aug 29, 2018 12:28:18 #
While you intellectuals continue to discuss this, I am going to go outside and click a shutter!
Aug 29, 2018 12:39:24 #
d2b2 wrote:
While you intellectuals continue to discuss this, I am going to go outside and click a shutter!
you're reading my mind... Too much time? why do you have a camera?
The camera gets what the grandkids, my wife, neighbors, and living life, leaves for me, to myself.
It's either post edit or working the camera....
Philosophical wanderings? I keep them to the subjects in the viewfinder.
Aug 29, 2018 13:01:20 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Don't think so much. Get out and take pictures. Everything in life, including you, the dog, the Squirrel outside your window, the Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy and the entire universe is a collection of electrons. Does that make you feel any better? 
Aug 29, 2018 13:03:01 #
danersmiff wrote:
you're reading my mind... Too much time? why do you have a camera?
The camera gets what the grandkids, my wife, neighbors, and living life, leaves for me, to myself.
It's either post edit or working the camera....
Philosophical wanderings? I keep them to the subjects in the viewfinder.
The camera gets what the grandkids, my wife, neighbors, and living life, leaves for me, to myself.
It's either post edit or working the camera....
Philosophical wanderings? I keep them to the subjects in the viewfinder.
I do like the shot but I think it is too hot in the center which is where the eye goes immediately when viewing this shot. Shot at sunset with the sun in the shot would have helped I think.
Aug 29, 2018 13:24:56 #
Aug 29, 2018 13:31:33 #
safeman wrote:
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much ti... (show quote)
You are losing track of the objective in creating images via the use of cameras. If you just want to concentrate on capturing photons or channeling electrons, get into something else, such as solar energy production or electronics.
Aug 29, 2018 13:34:58 #
Being an old dinosaur, I'll say that photography is derived from two words (both Greek, I recall): photos meaning light and graphos meaning something drawn or written. Hence, a photograph is something drawn or written with light. I don't think we have to try to bring the concept into the twenty-first century no matter what the media (film or electrons).
Aug 29, 2018 13:47:46 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
drklrd wrote:
I do like the shot but I think it is too hot in the center which is where the eye goes immediately when viewing this shot. Shot at sunset with the sun in the shot would have helped I think.
Shot at sunset with the sun in the shot would be a boring same old same old kind of image. His interpretation of the scene is very striking and sets up an interesting mood, but it clearly does not appeal to everyone.
Aug 29, 2018 14:18:31 #
safeman wrote:
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much ti... (show quote)
Painting with light is what photography is, of course. How that painting is captured seems quite irrelevant (film vs everything else). It seems to me to be just another medium, such as painting with oil on canvas vs watercolor on paper, etc. they are both paintings, but they share nothing in common, save the finished product. You're also jumping straight into and supportive of Bertrand Russell's discourses regarding existence and experience....you know...if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? Your suggestion that the collection of electrons doesn't become a photograph until it is printed or viewed is essentially the same. You could drop the word printed and Sir Russell would smile from his grave.
Aug 29, 2018 14:57:34 #
We are photographers, creating a photographic image.
No differentiation as to how it is accomplished.
No differentiation as to how it is accomplished.
Aug 29, 2018 15:02:06 #
drklrd wrote:
I do like the shot but I think it is too hot in the center which is where the eye goes immediately when viewing this shot. Shot at sunset with the sun in the shot would have helped I think.
Thank you for the critique, but you should know, that was the sunrise, behind them. The view from the far side at sunset is not available. (to me - geographically)
I may have lightened it a little too much, in edit... But the point was to the O-P; there's always fishing, as well !!
- and thank you mr silvers.
Aug 29, 2018 15:38:29 #
Aug 29, 2018 15:49:59 #
RogerN wrote:
I'm not a Photographer, I'm a Photo Electric Effecter.
Aug 29, 2018 15:53:52 #
BigDaddy wrote:
I think I watched you do this in a "collection of electrons" on YouTube called BigTractorPower.
Couldn't have been me. I haven't got any "moving electrons" to send. I'm still figuring out "still electrons"🙄🙄
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