You can always make me laugh.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 19, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> I am tempted to send you a Bah! Humbug! Winsor... ;-)
>
> There's nothing wrong with a bit of frothy water old chap. Clichés are
> clichés, I agree, but as long as there is something different there's
> art in it. I'm no singer, but I understand that vibrato on the long
> notes is considered a cliché among the cognoscenti but that does not
> stop an audience enjoying the skill and the aesthetics of the
> performance.
>
> Now, this is nothing to do with the fact that I might (or might not)
> have spent some spare time on my recent holiday by the sea fixing ND
> filters and polarisers to a lens to induce a long exposure ... ;-)
>
> Chris
>
> On 19 Oct 2004, at 17:29, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>>
> snip
>> 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.
>>
> <|_:-)_|>
> C M I Barker
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