Yep, I'd heard a similar story about Monet, but perhaps Manet had the same
problem !
...Wayne
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Subject: Re: [OM] blue gold or whatever
FWIW I think it was Monet not Manet
On 28 February 2015 at 17:33, Bob Benson <bob.benson91@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The blue/black/gold/white discussion is really interesting. Like the
> 75%/25% discussion.
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> Of course, all this begs some questions about what this means for our
> photography.
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> I mean, we calibrate our monitors, work hard on post-processing,
> etc., and to what end?
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> Sure it makes us individually happy with our images, but what if no
> one else sees it the same way we do?
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> Not to mention the effects of variations of our individual
> eyes/brains, etc.
> Mild catalysts (ah, I obviously meant cataracts) come to mind. I ve
> long suspected that photo editors for the photo mags are older folks,
> with old eyes and stages of cataracts etal, which lead them to favor
> photos with brighter (even garish) colors. (There s gotta be some
> reason for the fetish-like bright reds and oranges on featured
> landscapes that they put on covers and stories )
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> I m reminded of the Mus e de l'Orangerie with the very large Manet
> paintings which (as I remember it) are quite blurred and not brightly
> colored but as I recall, these were painted very late in his life,
> when his vision was very compromised.
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> So we labor on, with great tools to affect (that is, post-process)
> our images, not to mention the in-camera things we can do.
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> Again, film seemed so much easier without all the capabilities for
> modifying
> the images we captured. It pretty much was what it was, though
> outstanding
> lab technicians had tools and capabilities as well.
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> I guess the question really is so what. I watch with interest folks
> in our galleries picking the images that appeal to them. Composition
> of course mostly matters. But coloration/contrast etc., I am willing
> to suggest, is really a crapshoot in terms of what people actually
> see and like.
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> Bob
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