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04/22/2016 03:44:11 PM · #1
Thank you so much!!!!!
04/22/2016 10:42:58 AM · #2
wow, thank you. I'm honored!
04/22/2016 10:34:52 AM · #3
Thank you very much for the appreciation
04/22/2016 01:27:37 AM · #4

posthumous

The Flying Pig, for best in show & in recognition for fine art created with photography.


Flying Pig Honorable Mention, in recognition for fine art created with photography.

mariuca

hipychik
03/22/2016 12:39:02 PM · #5
Whoaa... Thanks!!
03/22/2016 09:24:59 AM · #6
Thanks for the HM! Appreciated!
03/22/2016 02:37:05 AM · #7

Flying Pig Best in Show for March Expert FS

vawendy


Flying Pig Honorable Mentions

Melethia

RKT

daevans

Donna-Dee

Judi

digifotojo

Hipychik

Message edited by author 2016-03-22 07:47:53.
02/22/2016 10:58:45 AM · #8
thanks so much for the mention
02/22/2016 10:14:35 AM · #9
Thank you, pixelpig for the HM Flying Pig award for .
I am so grateful that this category of free study was initiated this time.
There are so many times I've wondered: "What would happen if..."
This is the place for such imaginings at DPC.
02/22/2016 09:53:06 AM · #10
Thanks for the HM! I'm in excellent company!
02/22/2016 09:43:05 AM · #11
I added these to my bling gallery tracker :-)
//otuama.net/dpc/awarder/63218

It should automatically update after every rollover.

Message edited by author 2016-02-22 09:43:11.
02/22/2016 09:32:55 AM · #12
Thanks very much for the HM, truly appreciated :)
02/22/2016 01:11:53 AM · #13
Hello! The Flying Pig has come back especially for the Expert Free Study challenges. May they be here to stay. There were so many excellent comps, it was not easy to pick the winners. Congratulations to all--see ya next time!


The Flying Pig Best in Show


by jmritz


The Flying Pig Honorable Mentions


by flaherma


by sfalice


by RKT

Message edited by author 2016-03-12 09:04:14.
02/20/2016 09:39:24 PM · #14
That is why art & competition do not exist at the same time in the same person.
02/20/2016 05:51:19 PM · #15
Originally posted by pixelpig:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

The part about festishising technology, esp w/regard to cameras, is something I've noticed myself. The impulse to obsess about sharp focus is part pf that fetishising process. Get it sharp to show you can.

In the past I've thought of it as prioritizing having a quality image over image quality ...


"My image is sharper than yours" is a valid brag, while "my image is more artistic than yours" is not so easy to defend.

That's only an issue if you're concerned with feeling superior to having bragging rights over someone. Some (I) might say that "art" and "competition" are mutually exclusive in their underlying rationales ...
02/20/2016 05:38:23 PM · #16
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

The part about festishising technology, esp w/regard to cameras, is something I've noticed myself. The impulse to obsess about sharp focus is part pf that fetishising process. Get it sharp to show you can.

In the past I've thought of it as prioritizing having a quality image over image quality ...


"My image is sharper than yours" is a valid brag, while "my image is more artistic than yours" is not so easy to defend.
02/20/2016 05:35:01 PM · #17
Well, you know I thought I'd resurrect this thread & start sending Flying Pigs to the Best in Show & 3 HM for the monthly FS Expert. Hopefully, it will encourage some additional commenting.
02/20/2016 05:29:28 PM · #18
Ooh, I thought I'd gotten me a flying pig but all I got was a Flying Pig HM, I guess...ah well
02/20/2016 05:21:11 PM · #19
Originally posted by pixelpig:

The part about festishising technology, esp w/regard to cameras, is something I've noticed myself. The impulse to obsess about sharp focus is part pf that fetishising process. Get it sharp to show you can.

In the past I've thought of it as prioritizing having a quality image over image quality ...
02/20/2016 04:22:25 PM · #20
The part about festishising technology, esp w/regard to cameras, is something I've noticed myself. The impulse to obsess about sharp focus is part pf that fetishising process. Get it sharp to show you can.

I think the camera is fetishizable because in the beginning it was a mentally & physically demanding process just to get any kind of a picture.

About 10-15 years ago (before the iPhone camera) if I wanted a photography magazine I would find it in the bookstore in the Men's section. Photography was still thought to be an unladylike occupation & the camera was thought to be beyond the mental powers of women. Not to get sidetracked, but I know people now to whom the camera is an impenetrable & uninteresting mystery.

When the smartphone camera burst upon the scene, things changed forever in ways we do not yet know. The machinery you create your art with ought to be irrelevant, but it isn't. It doesn't have to dominate & control the art, though.

Message edited by author 2016-02-20 16:25:23.
02/20/2016 03:11:04 PM · #21
The second article had this paragraph, which is what I think a lot of us (at least those with strong "traditional" attachments) are struggling with

"What I'm into is visual connection to what I'm taking, not pin-sharp clarity. It's absurd for people to think all photos need to be high-resolution – what matters, artistically, is not how many pixels it has, but if the image works. People fetishise the technology in photography more than any other medium. You don't get anybody but paintbrush nerds fixating on what brush the Chapman brothers use. The machinery you create your art on is irrelevant."
02/20/2016 02:10:27 PM · #22
Me too.

But I started out looking for "photographic in nature" & all I got was photographs of nature. So I just looked around. I need some food for thought not fueled by the same ol' arguments.
02/20/2016 01:30:07 PM · #23
From the first article:

" It won’t be long before photographers are making images of what they know, rather than only what they see. Mark Levoy, formerly of Stanford and now of Google puts it this way, “Except in photojournalism, there will be no such thing as a ‘straight photograph’; everything will be an amalgam, an interpretation, an enhancement or a variation – either by the photographer as auteur or by the camera itself.

People did this, do this, with film. To me this seemed to be an article written by someone who has no idea what photography is, much less used film, set foot in a darkroom or knows much at all about it's vast technical or creative history. I had to force myself to finish reading it.
02/20/2016 12:35:50 PM · #24
Originally posted by pixelpig:

Revolution in Photography
iPhone camera effect

Is photography dead? Or is the photographer a mythical hero of the past?


Trying to keep up :)
02/20/2016 11:06:18 AM · #25
Revolution in Photography
iPhone camera effect

Is photography dead? Or is the photographer a mythical hero of the past?

Message edited by author 2016-02-20 11:10:16.
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