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07/28/2015 02:15:05 PM |
Originally posted by ubique:
Originally posted by posthumous:
btw, the notes about equipment and gearheads brings up a point I've been thinking about. Why doesn't this apply to music? I saw a youtube video of someone playing clarinet, and barely able to hit the notes, certainly not to the right rhythm. It didn't strike me as "ambiguous" or "interesting," only painful to listen to.
for some people on DPC, looking at a photograph must be equivalent to me listening to music... |
Interesting point Don. I suppose it's not quite the same thing though. The comparison is probably more like indie music versus mainstream popular music. Maybe you can take bad photographs (interesting, ambiguous, confounding) only if you're first good enough? Or at least a plausible faker, like me. |
An excellent topic here. All started by Paul's "ambiguity". People get shy when confronted with a piece of music. They can almost never answer even to the simple question: "did you like it". They hide behind: I don't play an instrument, I am not a music connoisseur...
It has to do probably with the way music is made and played. While in front of any piece of pictorial art the responses are shameless. As if these instruments on which a visual art piece is made are perfectly known or mastered. The eye is easy on the brain. This applies to any visual things not only painting and photography (the two dimensional forms) but to sculpture, interior decoration, fashion, ceramics…
Yes Paul, one can take "interesting, ambiguous, confounding photographs only if one is first good enough".
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07/14/2015 03:52:38 PM |
You want everybody to take the NOODUITGANG. Hehe.
Thanks for another middle-of-the-night awakener.
I'm going to phone you if I cannot get back to sleep..
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07/03/2015 03:09:31 AM |
Originally posted by posthumous:
btw, the notes about equipment and gearheads brings up a point I've been thinking about. Why doesn't this apply to music? I saw a youtube video of someone playing clarinet, and barely able to hit the notes, certainly not to the right rhythm. It didn't strike me as "ambiguous" or "interesting," only painful to listen to.
for some people on DPC, looking at a photograph must be equivalent to me listening to music... |
Interesting point Don. I suppose it's not quite the same thing though. The comparison is probably more like indie music versus mainstream popular music. Maybe you can take bad photographs (interesting, ambiguous, confounding) only if you're first good enough? Or at least a plausible faker, like me.
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07/02/2015 11:12:58 PM |
I am a gear whore. I took a long break from DPC and just returned. I have been struggling to shoot anything since I have been back, it's mostly crap.
Photograph rather than photography was a nice punch in the face! Thanks for defining my angst and redirecting it to meaning. |
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07/02/2015 12:29:10 PM |
btw, the notes about equipment and gearheads brings up a point I've been thinking about. Why doesn't this apply to music? I saw a youtube video of someone playing clarinet, and barely able to hit the notes, certainly not to the right rhythm. It didn't strike me as "ambiguous" or "interesting," only painful to listen to.
for some people on DPC, looking at a photograph must be equivalent to me listening to music... |
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07/02/2015 12:20:46 PM |
very smart of you to show pieces of the main photo. First, you create a visual metaphor of ambiguity, how one photo contains many. Second, each piece becomes its own image, and you show how framing (cropping) creates ambiguity by what it leaves out.
this essay was short but very sweet. |
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07/01/2015 11:34:06 AM |
Less is more but you must offer an opening so the curious viewer can have a hand in what he takes away. We all have different life experiences so we shouldn't see the world the same way. Divulge to much information and you don't allow the observer to take part in the experience. So we walk the tightrope of ambiguity and try to keep our balance.
Thanks for you ongoing contributions to this side challenge.
Message edited by author 2015-07-01 23:04:21. |
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07/01/2015 09:29:44 AM |
| I found the process of learning photography technique to be fairly straight forward. There are resources galore explaining all of the rules, tips, and tricks involved in the operation of the camera, the processing tools, and what a formulaic photograph should look like. What I found to be the most challenging (and continue to find challenging) is taking that knowledge and using it to produce a photograph that has some meaning to me. This is where I feel I have been dropped in a big black hole, left to grasp for any bit of information and inspiration that will help me continue in this hobby of photography. This lovely essay has has given me much to hang on to. Your clever exploration of ambiguity makes conscious what was previously a vague emotion. I am always grateful for your wisdom. And, your one photograph is just perfect for this essay. |
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07/01/2015 06:10:41 AM |
| Nice reminder. I like ambiguity, it brings clarity. I like gear, especially using it in all the ways that make pros wince in horror. Thanks for keeping the light on the hill burning sans politics. |
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06/30/2015 10:43:30 PM |
| Even better is the four club/red, white, blue tournaments where you rotated between all the tees. Some of us never even see the back tees, in all our golfing lives, unless you play some odd format tournament that opens up those remote back tees. I love it when a photograph finds me. It's the only way to take pictures, I think. |
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06/30/2015 04:10:53 PM |
ambiguity, the story of my life. i got into the golf thing in my 20's. all i could afford was 4 clubs. a short few years of fun. then my car was stolen, boston, clubs in the trunk, never to be seen again.
you put into words my feelings. thanks for that |
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