Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Photorealism

Subject: Re: [OM] Photorealism
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:19:34 +1100
I don't really see the point - why not just take a photograph. Very clever but 
not well used. 'Real' realism is someone like precisionist Jeffry Smart who 
creates highly detailed paintings of scenes which are stripped, minimal and 
precise in a way that photographs can almost never be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Smart
One of his best known early paintings -
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/11/11/1226193/110158-111111jeffrey-smart.jpg
Later style -
http://www.etchinghouse.com.au/images/1939.jpg
And an approach to portraiture -
http://www.etchinghouse.com.au/images/2056.jpg

Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com

Author/Publisher: 
The SLR Compendium: 
revised edition - 
http://blur.by/19Hb8or
The TLR Compendium
http://blur.by/1eDpqN7



On 12/01/2014, at 10:45 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> PESO:
> 
> Maybe we should all sell our cameras and buy brushes:
> 
> http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/photorealism/?viewall=true
> 
> Amazing!
> 
> Tina
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com
> -- 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
> 
> 

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz