Thanks for those thoughts, Ken.
I remember, now and then, that the light is different over there from
over here. I spent just over 2 years in Florida after 2 years in
Germany and my photographs showed the difference. After a while I
realised that I was trying to recall the softness of European light
while photographing in harsh sub-tropical sunlight; your point is well
made, Ken.
I made a similar comment about Moose's mountains, but it's just a
matter of perception, different monitors and preference.
And I agree, there was a hint of over-analysis of your mono image.
Chris
On 18 Feb 2009, at 16:27, Ken Norton wrote:
> There is a distinct "California Look" of which Moose is definitely a
> purveyer of. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this look, but I'm
> reminded that South Western American artworks don't sell well in
> Iowa and
> Iowa artworks wouldn't sell well in Sante Fe. Much of this has to
> do with
> quality of natural daylight where we all live. For instance,
> throughout
> much of the American West, there is little to no haze (or even
> cloud-cover). There is an edginess and contrast to the natural
> landscape
> which isn't present in the Eastern States, nor in the Brittish
> Isles. It
> would be extremely wrong to apply the "California Look" to a foggy
> moody
> scene. And it would be also extremely wrong to apply a soft, mid-
> tone only
> contrasting to an image of our American West. It just doesn't fit.
>
> Back to my B&W image, I purposefully blew out the background because I
> didn't want the background to contain visual information to compete
> with the
> building and foreground vegitation. This was absolutely my artistic
> intent.
> Unfortunately, instead of accepting this artistic intent and
> allowing the
> eyes to study the rest of the scene, we hyper-analyzed the
> photograph for
> the fact that it contained a "technical flaw" based on "modern
> dynamic-range
> think". How is this any different than Ansel Adams' "Monolith"
> which has a
> blacked out sky? Shall we criticize AA because the sky went too
> dark and
> indicated a "flaw" in the expression of proper dynamic range?
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