Depends upon how one decides to use it, I think. Like most tools the results depend upon the user as much as on the tool.
BTW, Norman Rockwell's paintings all started out as photographs. No he did not paint over photos. He used the photos, shot in his studio, as references to paint from. I guess you could say his people paintings were still lifes of photographs <grin>. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Bob W wrote: > it all depends on whether you think the camera is a picture-making > tool, or a recording device. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Jens Bladt >> Sent: 12 July 2006 23:16 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: RE: Bad taste >> >> To me: >> All images are abstractions (of reality or imaginations) - it >> IS NOT real >> life. >> So, I don't see anything wrong in making images with all kind >> of tools, >> bruches, chalk, coal, film, CCD's, computers etc. >> Adding or subtracting to/from "the real thing" is a statement. > Images >> without a statement are poor communication. >> Making images is communicating - like using a language. >> >> Nevertheless - IO have been trying to redo the effect-iamge >> in a larger >> format. No luck. The effect "dies" when I use more pixels. >> So I just enlarged the firt one. >> I put it here (buttom of the page): >> http://www.jensbladt.dk/Modelnight/Pernille-site.html >> >> I'd like to have it printed really big. >> I think I'm beginn to understand what Andy Warhol did to >> Marilyn Monroe - >> not that ther'es any comparison to my photgraph at all ;-l) >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
