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Mechani-masturbation or art?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Boy, this one got heated fast! Art comes in many forms, as has been stated. Photography is itself considered by many to be an art form (as has been stated). To say that art history does not apply to photography is at the least, misinformed. But no one holds it against anyone that they've been misinformed. Mild redirection is all that's needed. Color, composition, line, light, shadows, balance, all of these things that make up a painting should be considered in the process of taking a photo for "art". Sure, you can snap of any kind of candid image. And, as was said before, sometimes those candid images turn out to be really great art. What makes them art? A combination of color, composition, line, light, shadow, and balance. Whether it was intentional or not doesn't make a difference. Studying art history can only make you a better photographer. Whether you are intentionally trying to create photographic art or not. Learning to "see" the elements of a great piece of art teaches you to see the world differently. So that even when you take photos on the fly, without all that wonderful pre-shot setup, the photos you turn out will still be artistic in nature. The great painters were masters of light, color, line and shadow. They practically invented the idea of "composition" in a painting. Painting is how they captured what they saw of the world before photography was invented. It's not their fault they didn't have cameras then. Otherwise, we'd be studying the great photographers, instead of the great painters. And you don't have to bog yourself down in the text and prose involved in studying art history. Visit museums, look at the pictures of paintings in art books. No need to read all that stuff unless you're really interested in it. An intelligent and observant person should be able to pick up on the elements of art after some visual exposure, regardless of what you actually read about it. Though, reading most of that stuff might help you to better [i]understand[/i] what you're seeing... You don't [i]have[/i] to study art or art history to take pictures. But if you really want to be a great artistic photographer, you probably should. :) edit - I hadn't gone into the POW4 thread yet to see the discussion this all came from, but having read all of that, my opinion on the matter still holds. Rawbot, I wanted to go look at your work on the link you posted, but all of that flash stuff just took so long, I got impatient. Do you have anything that isn't hidden behind the flash on that website? I'd like to see what you do. How 'bout a link directly to a page with some photos on it? [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=617&sortby=rating]Bodhi - Cell 617[/url] [This message has been edited by bodhi23 (edited 04-17-2003).] Loading...
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