In a message dated 7/14/2006 6:04:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like Michael Reichmann's contrast between photography and painting: They're exact opposites because the painter starts with a blank canvas and can put anything he or she can imagine on it, whereas the photographer starts with a scene or subject (potentially the whole world) and has to decide what to *leave out* of the scene he/she frames in the viewfinder.
-- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia ========== This is true. 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. Marnie aka Doe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
