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Re: Compositions and My Contribution
Roger D. Williams 2006-Oct-11 09:21:00
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:47:57 +0900, Keith Martin <#removed#>
wrote:
> Sometime around 11/10/06 (at 16:57 +0900) Roger D. Williams said:
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>> I am sure your view, which I may paraphrase as "anything goes
>> as long as the end result is good to look at" is undoubtedly the
>> majority
>> view. It still leaves me rather uncomfortable, though.
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> Not as uncomfortable as me, sitting up here on both sides of the
> fence at the same time! :-)
No, I can see that. <g>
In my case, unhappiness with the necessary unreality of stitching
led me to concentrate on rotary cameras (well, one rotary and one
swing-lens) rather than stitching. I am happier with stitching
these days.
> I think there's a definite difference between created images and
> tweaked images, although I think there are probably some tweaked
> images which have had more done to them than some intentionally
> artificial images.
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> However, I don't think that makes composited, artificial-scene
> panoramas any less worthy of interest and praise. I just hope that
> the creators are always prepared to say that's what they are. Unless
> they're making a concious and definite artistic statement through the
> process of fooling people!
I agree. My unhappiness with artificial scene panoramas is a feeling
that it's getting away from photography and into something else. I
too would appreciate open artistic statements of the nature of the
work. Then I could enjoy everything without a nagging suspicion that
it is all somehow synthetic.
Roger
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