... quality and content not mutually exclusive, I'm shocked
Ok, I've gotten the point that you have a problem with most of my posts. However, some responses in this thread seemed to believe that they were mutually exclusive.
Sparrow
Veteran
... sorry, I was in fact agreeing with you ... my tendency to irony could probably have been more obvious had I used a smiley
Margu
Established
... quality and content not mutually exclusive, I'm shocked
her hair is smudged really badly with artifacts or is it my monitor?
Sparrow
Veteran
... I'd not noticed, but then it was only illuminated by her laptop
Ansel
Well-known
I would say image first, gear second. But this is the internet and the images speak for themselves, and as may of the greats will tell you, there is nothing much to say about a photo, you experience it. So we talk about gear!
RichC
Well-known
Yes to the latter, no to the former. There's loads you can say about a photograph - many art critics, critical theorists, philosophers and historians spend their lives doing this! Entire books have been written about a single photograph: one of the most famous - and important - is "Camera Lucida" by the French theorist Roland Barthes, written about a photograph of his mother (which he actually doesn't show you!).
Pioneer
Veteran
A little blur is not a bad thing, and in some cases is actually important for the picture. To pick a small point, I am not so sure that this famous Capa D-Day blur came about when he was taking the picture. I seem to remember something about his negatives being overheated during drying, causing the emulsion to melt and move. Those particular pictures would have been far more clear, and far more meaningful, if they had not been damaged during processing. I suspect that Capa would have preferred it that way.
... sorry, I was in fact agreeing with you ... my tendency to irony could probably have been more obvious had I used a smiley
Got ya. Sorry for being a sensitive fool.
rivercityrocker
Well-known
Yes, that's true about the D-Day pictures. I've seen the original Magnum working print and there's a typewritten caption by Capa taped to the back that explains that.
I was talking about a different photo though. The falling soldier was taken during the Spanish Civil War.