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04/05/2007 07:12:29 AM · #1 |
...Photographer or an Image Technician?
Message edited by author 2007-04-06 07:35:56. |
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04/05/2007 07:16:23 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by Gibun:
...Photographer or an Image Technicion? |
If you take a picture wouldn't that classify you as a photographer? Therefore 99.9% of the people on this list are photographers.
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04/05/2007 07:18:20 AM · #3 |
Or are you asking politically?
And it's Technician, not Technicion. Just a friendly correction. hahha don't you hate that when people do that to you?
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04/06/2007 03:34:19 AM · #4 |
This is actually a very astute question! IMHO this gets to the heart of a consistent problem in the art community worldwide.
The difference between an artist and a highly-accurate user of some medium of expression is "heart."
A highly-skilled user executes technical perfection, but almost always produces an end result that is "cold, clinical, and antiseptic."
Being an artist is IMHO the goal for every feeling human being who wants to leave a lasting mark on his or her generation. The artist knows how to produce perfection, but rarely does so preferring to sacrifice a bit of androidian "rightness" in lieu of artistic & human "warmth."
Modern Societal climate has attempted to teach us IMHO that uniformity is the rightness that leads to peace, to life, to health and to acceptance. Whereas human imperfections can only lead to destruction and must be edited out of every performance.
Actually, the Truth is quite the opposite. :)
Therefore, in my humble opinion digital photography that is captured, edited, and displayed in perfection (including compositional perfection) makes the individual a photographic architect.
A photographic artist, on the other hand, produces an image with "heart", "personality" (that often captures the subject's unique personality, and possesses an intuitive level of perfection that instinctively knows how much human imperfection to leave in the photo (for enhancement) & how much human imperfection to edit out of the photo (in order to prevent the degradation of quality.)
An artist (regardless of medium...pixels, acrylic, oil, watercolor, clay, etc.) creates ART with intrinsic value and multiple layers of meaning that can be seen by other artists, if not world population at large. An artist maintains a belief in his or her ART and its inherent quality, value, goodness, even when the average on-looker shrugs their shoulders & asks, "What?"
Bottom Line: Photographic ART is the display of a photographer's level of technical skill seen through the color filter of his or her heart. Flawless Photography displays a photographer's level of technical perfection seen through the UV filter of the mind only. 
Message edited by author 2007-04-06 03:41:06.
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04/06/2007 05:54:46 AM · #5 |
| I am a... ... ... VERB. ...dammit. |
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04/06/2007 09:03:38 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I am a... ... ... VERB. |
Actually, you're an acronym, Dude! I just wanted to be apropos, especially since I've taken the Vow of Silence on all forms of acrimony...
But I just have to tell you...You really are a funny guy! Thanks! :)
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04/06/2007 09:12:30 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by 777STAN:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I am a... ... ... VERB. |
Actually, you're an acronym, Dude! I just wanted to be apropos, especially since I've taken the Vow of Silence on all forms of acrimony...
But I just have to tell you...You really are a funny guy! Thanks! :) |
i thought he was an abbreviation .. ?
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04/06/2007 10:01:53 AM · #8 |
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04/06/2007 10:09:39 AM · #9 |
| It gets very confusing when people jump in at random to suggest what part of speech or linguistic device Mr Rofalmao might be. Verb, abbreviation, acronym ? It is begininning to make my head spin. If this is to continue might I sugest that instead of just pitching whenever we feel light like it we go for a formal rota ? |
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04/06/2007 10:59:05 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by thelobster:
It gets very confusing when people jump in at random to suggest what part of speech or linguistic device Mr Rofalmao might be. Verb, abbreviation, acronym ? It is begininning to make my head spin. If this is to continue might I sugest that instead of just pitching whenever we feel light like it we go for a formal rota ? |
Try pronouncing his username in a podcast. :)
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