The Online Photographer continues to develop as one of the most thoughtful and interesting web sites on photography. Right now there are several very interesting articles about the strengths and weaknesses of digital monochrome photography – well worth reading, as is the article on wins and losses in the transition to digital.
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Category Archives: Ideas
T.O.P. Continues with #5
The Online Photographer continues the Top 10 Photographs series with photo #5<, Ansel Adam’s photograph of Yosemite’s Tenaya Lake (a place I’m quite familiar with) along with a discussion of aspects of Adam’s work in general. T.O.P. is always worth reading and this is an interesting post. Although I’m don’t quite agree with all of the article’s notions about Adam’s place in photography, there are parts of it that I identify with strongly. In any case, a thought-provoking post about a wonderful image and a great photographer.
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T.O.P. Ten: Number 6
The Online Photographer – Another post in the T.O.P. Top 10 Photos series, this one about the famous photo of jazz greats made in Harlem in 1958 by photographer Art Kane.
Just remarkable. It’s as if all the German and Austrian classical composers had gathered for a group portrait that included Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, or if somehow we could have a group portrait of all the major Italian Renaissance artists gathered together, old Leonardo next to young Raphael, or all the impressionists. Or all of the Athenian philosophers. All would be as august as this group, but none more so.
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The Confluence Rule
At The Online Photographer Mike Johnston comments about an article by Charles Cramer that compares medium format digital to scanned 4×5 film. I think one of Johnston’s comments is especially intriguing:
I have a principle I call “the confluence rule.” What I’ve noticed is that the closer two of anything are to each other, the more people tend to work to discriminate between them, and the more passionate their arguments become about which is “best.” This is backwards, in my opinion. To me, the closer two of anything are to each other–the more confluent they are–the less it matters which one you choose.
By the way, The Online Photographer has become one of my favorite photography blogs recently.