Artfully and beautifully done photographs, but I have never really
understood the fascination with star trails or streams and seascapes
that look like flowing fog. They are just in your face artifacts of the
light gathering limitations of cameras. It is nice when the artifacts
are pleasingly arranged, but it might as well be plaid as far as I am
concerned. Is there something I am missing?
What I really don't understand is when the artifact is aped as when
35mm camera users take a nature photograph and deliberately choose a
slow shutter speed to imitate the defect of a large format camera with
a frequency that it has become such a universal cliche that I have seen
experienced photographers instruct newbies on this "proper" way to
photograph water. Which famous Spanish guitarist was it that published
his playing method with detailed fingerings and he was imitated by
students for hundreds of years until it was pointed out that he was
missing fingers.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Roger Wesson wrote:
> Bit late responding... I agree the horizon's a sin and should have been
> corrected before NASA let the picture get anywhere near APOD, but why
> on
> earth would you want to turn the star trails into points?? I love star
> trails, short or long. Here's some of mine:
>
> http://www.world-traveller.org/photo/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9
>
> Roger
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
>> Way cool picture.
>>
>> However, if it were mine, since I have been beaten into submission
>> and now accept that it's perfectly okay to "tidy things up a bit"
>> with photo editing software, I'd level the horizon and turn the star
>> trails into points with a bit of sky cloning.
>>
>> See what y'all have turned a pure-minded, well-behaved,
>> mild-mannered, tradition-respecting photographer into! Oh, the
>> shame, the shame.
>>
>> Oh, well. Back to "tidying up" my TOPE 20 entry.
>>
>> Walt
>>
>> -- "Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic."
>> -- Edward Weston
>>
>>
>> -------------- Original message from "Garry D. Lewis" :
>> --------------
>>
>>
>>> No details of how it was made, but I do admit it IS a cool
>>> picture--
>>>
>>> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041007.html
>>>
>>> Yours strucked with awe,
>>>
>>> Garry
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