From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 12/17/02-06:24:44 AM Z
2 cents here... non-photographic = design
the process of flattening space pushes the need to arrange and juxtapose
even further than with the normal and wide views, where natural
perspective is easier (and dare I say more relevant) to utilize.
-Darryl
Pam Niedermayer wrote:
> Jon wrote:
>
>> "Anti-Photographic" ???
>>
>> You got to be kidding.
>>
>> As far as why people usually do not use telephoto lenses is that most
>> people when photographing the landscape want to provide a 'sense of
>> place'. This is dificult to achieve with a telephoto lens.
>>
>> Shooting telephoto is a limiting process where you exclude the
>> surroundings and focus on one specific element or area in a landscape.
>>
> I often shoot landscapes with telephoto lenses, very cool, imho.
> Limiting process? I suppose, but it also makes visible sections of a
> grand vista landscape that would otherwise go unseen. So would that be
> an encompassing process?
>
>> Needless to say it would be relatively easy argue that shooting with a
>> telephoto lens that the image no longer stands as a 'landscape'
>> photograph. But that doesn't remove it from being a photograph.
>>
>> Maybe you are confused by this. Since the image no longer is a landscape
>> photograph then it is no longer a photograph at all? You could not
>> be any
>> more wrong....
>>
> I doubt that Jack Fulton is confused by this or anything else
> photographic. He's saying that with the loss of perspective, or severe
> distortion, caused by the telephoto, the image loses reality,
> therefore becomes non-photographic, non-real. That's what's so
> interesting about the process in landscapes.
>
> Pam
>
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