About the message two days ago; a member took a pinhole image,
"sharpened" it in Adobe or a digital method, and printed it out. I
wonder why we don't just take traditional lens photographs and smear
them a little and print them out to look like pinhole work. What is it
that we are doing? I love pinhole photography and am retired from
traditional photo studio work. So my sister asked me recently, "why are
you and your friends intent on taking bad pictures?" I have always felt
we had a kind of philosophy...we were trying to see the world, or time,
or light another way. And I am not down on digital....but it is hard to
explain to non- participants that we really are doing something, and
something important. If we sharpen the images to look like better
conventional photos, is something being lost? The mystery? The
understanding of an almost occult medium? An atempt to see what light is
really doing as it hits and wraps around an object? What can I tell my
sister? Jean
Received on Mon Dec 9 19:58:49 2002
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