Re: Questions

 For me, a pinhole picture can be anything to any one person. To apply the constraints of
technical photography to what we do (i.e. perfect composition, lighting, *focus*) takes
away from the intent. I used to get regularly thrashed at camera club meetings for not
following convention but these same pinhole photos got quite the opposite reaction when
shown in a gallery. I have said (mostly to "lens-sees" and the un-enlightened) that
pinhole is just bad photography with good intentions. In reality, I believe that
photography-in any of it's applications- is open to descriptions such as pretty or
perfect or well composed or sharp or any number of things. Good picture, bad picture, or
indifferent picture; they should all have merit in the eyes of the beholder. Phew, that
was nice so early in the morning, as good as coffee. Thanks to Tom for posing the
question. Now back to the mundane world before the bosses catch on...David Walters, S.
FL, USA
> The list has been pretty quiet lately. Here are open ended questions
> that might generate some comments.
>
> Can a good pinhole photo be a just pretty picture? Or, does it need
> to be cerebral, with some intellectual meaning in the image?
>
> Curious Tom
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Received on Fri Feb 18 05:24:57 2005