On 8/30/2011 8:32 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> ...
>
> Ah, well, I've had my share of good breaker pictures. I guess Irene was a
> bust in more ways than one. Or I was.
>
> Sigh. Watch for a future post on a future blog about proper surf
> photography.<g>
You indeed have your share, including some great ones. Glad I have a few of
your prints, to remind me how much finer
they are than the web can show. I was just looking at your site and ran off to
look at the intro image, "Lightwave", in
person. It's so crude on the web.
I was in a shop in Ft. Bragg, CA a bit ago where they had cards and prints by a
local who does much of what you do,
local stuff. His "Green Wave" reminded me of your "Greenwall". Although not
nearly as strong a composition, he got great
color and lots of energy.
But this one struck me as rather spectacularly different from most breaking
wave images. Very unusual!
<http://jonkleinphoto.com/waves/fan-shaped-wave.html>
The guy has some good stuff. What you can't tell on his site is that the
finished prints, while OK, just don't measure
up to your beautifully crafted ones.
I was reminded again of the difference by your more recent post:
On 8/31/2011 10:14 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> That's true, to a point. I think digital photography is best, or most
> happily, undertaken by people with tendencies toward split personalities.
> There's a need for an eye, an ability to see the patterns, the compositions,
> the possibilities, and to recognize the much maligned decisive moment. But in
> order to bring all of that to a satisfactory image, the artist must surrender
> some of most of his sensibilities to the technician, the theoretical and
> optical physicist. In the wet darkroom, the artist gave way to the chemist
> and the optical specialist, but that's changed with photoshop and digital
> printing.
>
> You can have a complete mastery of the theory, and the application of
> photoshop, but your images can be horrid. Or, conversely, you can have the
> eye of a Leonardo and the technical ability of a bag of hammers, and be
> forever frustrated by your inability to put your vision onto a print.
An excellent summary!
Moose
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