Camera Obscura - Vermeer

[Bill Clark]

Photography has been definied as painting with light. Has the camera obscura been used by painters to make paintings? Isn't photography about using shadows as well as light?

Besides the video on Vermeer, please note the other you tube videos that you can look at when you make the click with this link.

Enjoy and I hope it causes you to think about your photography journey.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEior-0inxU

 

[charjohncarter]

I saw these on one of the PBS stations, a few years ago. It's a good story, and probably real, but could anybody today do it? It may be a digital film argument in the end.

 

[Rob-F]

I saw one at the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs. It's pretty fancy. It projects a view of the landscape onto a horizontal round table top. It turns somehow to follow the sunlit part of the landscape through the day.

 

[lynnb]

I once read David Hockney's book Secret Knowledge, publishing this theory. A fascinating read, and quite convincing. Wiki.

 

[Dralowid]

Watch 'A Matter of Life and Death' (Powell and Pressburger) which might have been called 'Stairway to Heaven' elsewhere, great film, great cast and great camera obscura

 

[Bill Clark]

I'm lucky to be alive now with all the tools available I can use to make photographs.