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Re: Compositions and My Contribution
Keith Martin 2006-Oct-11 08:47:00
Sometime around 11/10/06 (at 16:57 +0900) Roger D. Williams said:
>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.
Not as uncomfortable as me, sitting up here on both sides of the
fence at the same time! :-)
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.
And that's actually a key differentiator: images of a time/place
event vs. images which are intentionally artificial; scenes which are
specific composites of definitely different times and/or places.
What most of us here do is help panoramas along by choosing which
parts of overlapping shots to keep and which to crop. Technically,
the results are not 'pure' photography, but the aim is to present the
moment as it was as much as possible without unsightly bits of bodies
and doubled-up limbs crossing through shot boundaries.
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!
k