Digital BW, The Print

Anybody can develop the skills to push a shutter button. Anybody can 
develop the skills the make a print. Any with sufficient training can 
"report reality" with a camera. But how many photographers can go out 
into the garden and turn a crummy green pepper into a sensuous work of art?

Truman


Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote:

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> Truman Prevatt wrote:
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> >The photographer is not just one person. The photojournalist reports the
> >facts, but in the hands of Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Lange and
> >others the camera was used to convey the hopes, dreams and emotions of
> >their subjects better than any other media could have done.
> >
> >There are many good photographer technicians  but the true photographer,
> >the one whose photographs stand the test of time, are more than a
> >reporter of fact, they covey in every shot their message, their passion
> >and their emotion.
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> Exactly...
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> When I've lectured to photo students, I've said, when you shoot, think
> first of the emotion you want to convey..  Given  that photography is
> inherently limiting just in going from 3 or 4 to solely two dimensions,
> you need to not just replicate reality, but to convey the emotion  that
> is motivating you to choose that image as a subject in the first place..
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> That's part of what Adams did with filters etc..
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> Keith
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