That is because most of the folks so commenting are snapshooters they make images of what is found in front of their cameras (found objects). Photographers use a camera to make images of their ideas. They can and do stage and pose them if that is what is needed to present the idea. Many of the snapshooter persuasion think there is something wrong with that. Pure records of existing scenes is all that they accept. In news, legal, and documentary photography that should be the case, but in other areas there is no reason to stick to that limitation.
BTW, I am mostly a snapshooter myself, but I do know that is not all there is to photography. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having done both, I feel painting, personally, is a lot more creative. I > choose what to put it -- the concept springs from my head. It may also not be > reality-based at all. > > "So the limit between painting and photography is not really too clear." > > However, this is also true. Photography has been used as the basis for > painting quite a few times by quite a few people. And it possible to make a > photograph more like a painting. Also, although this list focuses practically > exclusively on fairly unmanipulated photographs, not everywhere does. Also > painting > and photography can be mixed. > > And photographers can photograph concepts that spring from their heads -- > photography can be staged. There is a great deal of photography out there > where > what is put into the photograph IS chosen by the photographer. Usually shot > in > a studio, edited, mixed with other elements, etc. I personally like a great > deal of that kind of photography and plan to try some someday. I also plan to > mix photography and painting. > > I think the line between the two is certainly less clear than it once was now > that we have digital and things like Photoshop. It certainly is now possible > to be almost as creative with photography as it is with painting. Things can > be removed (cloned out) from photographs, layers can be added, > elements/things > can be added, styles can be added. One, yes, starts with a photograph and not > a totally blank canvas, but the process can be the same. > > This may make people uncomfortable, but it's simply the way things are going. > > Personally, I think it's cool. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
