Yeah, and if one shoots that way, one can count on a few comments like
"I would have reframed to avoid the _distracting_highlights_ in the
upper left.."
etc. etc.
Ya like it or ya don't, I'm beginning to feel.
>frank theriault wrote:
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>
>>Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at leas
frank theriault wrote:
>Well, of course I'm saying something with a photograph. Sometimes I
>communicate better or more effectively that way than in other ways -
>that's the whole point, right?
>
>What irks me, is someone asking me what I'm trying to say.
>
>It's in the photograph. That's what t
Comments interspersed below.
Kenneth Waller
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From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Were You Trying to Say?
> Well, of course I'm saying something with a photograph. Sometimes I
> communicate better or more effecti
>>
>> Very well put.
>>
>> Kenneth Waller
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>> =========
>> Ditto. Agree with the above and the below.
>>
>> Marnie aka Doe
>>
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject
ote:
> In a message dated 6/28/2006 9:24:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Bingo!
>
> Very well put.
>
> Kenneth Waller
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> =
> Ditto. Agree with the above and the below.
>
> Marnie aka Doe
>
>
> ----- Original Message
In a message dated 6/28/2006 9:24:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Bingo!
Very well put.
Kenneth Waller
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Ditto. Agree with the above and the below.
Marnie aka Doe
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From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What
I once belonged to an artist group. One person of each media was invited
to belong. I was the token photographer. The were always going on about
this "meaning" stuff. Pseudo-psychological-babel was all it was to me. I
did not remain a member long, only a few months, although I was
flattered tha
You are usually trying to say, "I like this, at least at the moment I
take it". At least that is what I am saying. That or, "I hope the client
will like this". I think that mostly the only people who have a more
precise agenda when they snap a shot are propagandists.
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Bingo!
Very well put.
Kenneth Waller
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From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Were You Trying to Say?
> Of course you are saying something. You show your personal selection
> of the world that passes by. You may not be able to
The beauty fo communicating throug images (photographs or art) is IMO
that - IF the recipient is "on the same wavelengt" as the author or
publihser - he or she will understand the message, the question, the
statemnet, the joke etc. - if there is one. If there isn't, you are of
course free to make
frank theriault wrote:
> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions
> along the lines of the above subject line.
>
> Which got me to thinking: What difference does it make? I very often
> take photos which, ~at the time I take them~, I have no idea "what I'm
> trying to
Of course you are saying something. You show your personal selection
of the world that passes by. You may not be able to put it into
words, but the message is there. This is what I choose to show you,
this is what I think is worth showing.
DagT
Den 27. jun. 2006 kl. 18.55 skrev frank the
Hi!
> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions
> along the lines of the above subject line.
Frank, I am humbled by mere fact that my PESO inspired (at least it
looks like this) this thread. I find it extremely interesting thread.
> Which got me to thinking: What di
Quoting Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Not all pictures have messages. Some just appeal to our emotions.
> Some are documentary and contain information only but don't make a
> statement.
>
> That's my .02 worth.
>
> Tom Reese
I agree 100% Tom. I don't thing i have ever gone out on a photo
Bob W wrote:
>
>
t it to be saying something.
>
>. This is why it is so often a mistake to include text in a
> photograph - it will distract the viewer from the picture itself
> because the viewer is trying to find a meaning.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
Too late :)
annsan
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Frank,
you are a lucky man, as not everything you do/think/say is burdened with
stuff like "sense" or "purpose". Not so long ago, I had a talk with a
friend who paints and draws, who said that it's good, and maybe
necessary, to do things that certainly do not follow a purpose on first
hand. If
On 6/27/06, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The pretentious statement categories, of course!
>
> Pretentious statements seem to be applied, not necessarily by the
> photographer, most often to 'street' photographs and to 'art'
> photographs. Examples abound.
I have to admit, my question was rat
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> What categories might those be?
>
> Shel
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
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What categories might those be?
Shel
> [Original Message]
> From: Bob W
> Some photographers who take certain categories of picture claim, often
> pretentiously, to be making a statement with them.
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Subject: RE: What Were You Trying to Say?
> Some photographers who take certain categories of picture claim, often
> pretentiously, to be making a statement with them.
>
> Consequently when people see a picture that they think may belong in
> one of those ca
I agree Frank. Let a picture stand on its own beauty. There few things
less pompous than someone trying to find some abstract hidden message or
a universal truth in every image. The same thing happens in literary
work. I think it was JD Salinger, of "Catcher in the Rye" fame, that
was perpl
Some photographers who take certain categories of picture claim, often
pretentiously, to be making a statement with them.
Consequently when people see a picture that they think may belong in
one of those categories they often expect it to be saying something.
More prosaically, when a picture mak
A great question knarF.
My responses (YMMV) interspersed below.
Kenneth Waller
- Original Message -
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What Were You Trying to Say?
> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions
> along the lines of the above s
frank theriault wrote:
>
> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions
> along the lines of the above subject line.
>
> Which got me to thinking: What difference does it make? I very often
> take photos which, ~at the time I take them~, I have no idea "what I'm
> tryin
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions
> along the lines of the above subject line.
>
> Which got me to thinking: What difference does it make? I very often
> take photos which, ~at the time I take them~, I have no idea
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