Balderdash! :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/12/2012 11:20 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> And I need to admit as well that I'm one of that small minority with
>> Moose who has a dislike for the vast majority of pictures showing
>> grain... whether film grain or digital noise. It's not at all part of
>> the real world. I've been used to low noise digital for too long already.
>
> My problem with grainless images is that in areas of no detail there
> isn't anything for the eye to focus on. The subject of the image (the
> part that is in focus) ends up being separated from the remainder.
> This then brings up the question of why even have a background as it
> is in essence another entirely different image? Just do a "cutout".
>
> But the idea is to drive the eye to look at the subject, not the
> background. Right? Wrong. We want the eye to scan the image with a
> desired eye-flow. WIthout eye-flow the brain quickly loses interest in
> the photograph. The hyper-processed image might grab our attention,
> but within three or four seconds, everything to be gleaned from the
> image has been gleaned and we're ready to move on. What grain does is
> slow the eye down and give it more points to look at which gives the
> mind time to catch up with the eye and study the image for the true
> message.
>
> Jim's recent photos of the Redhead are good examples of this. The
> cleaned image is disturbing to me. Not only because of the artifacts,
> but because once I got the message that it was a woodpecker, I was
> ready to move on. There was absolutely nothing left in the photo to
> keep me going.
>
> It's a rare person that stares at a blank, cloudless sky. We will look
> at airplanes, birds and clouds in the sky, but we don't stare at the
> blue sky for long because there is nothing there to hold our interest.
> Why should our images also contain totally worthless, blank areas?
> Give something in there for the eye to look at. If nothing else, it
> will keep migraine-prone people from developing a headache from
> eye-strain as the eyes focus and refocus.
>
> Grain! It's a good thing, Martha.
>
> AG Schnozz
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