Thoughts on Photography -361
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- Visiting the work of painter/photographer, Edward Steichen, and a couple other photographers and comparing their images - and discussing common and differing aspects of picture making - with the work of painters.
Hi again Paul
More things to consider and think about.
Thanks for your time
Sheila
Things I wouldn't of seen otherwise, thank you.
Good...hopefully!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Recently you discussed favorite drawings and paintings of yours. Do you think the methodology of the visual order is amendable to the more traditionally linear medium of pen & ink used predominantly by illustrators? Are their any artists (illustrators) of the past who employed the pen in a way that is impressionistic despite the majority of it being imaginative? It could be interesting to those of us who enjoy pen and ink to see examples of the visual order being employed in such a way. Thanks again for everything you do! Please never stop!
I'll have to think about that for a minute but maybe right off I ghink of Zorn and wonder if he did ink. Who was the illustrator of Brer Rabbit from way back, Frost. Would have to review.
Henri Cartier-Bresson is an interesting photographer in his use of Dynamic Symmetry principles... whether or not it was a happy accident he employed this technique as some people dispute. What do you think of Dynamic Symmetry Paul? Do you ever use it? Do you think its bogus? The old Jay Hambidge books Im referring to: Dynamic Symmetry and the Greek Vase etc
Very useful topic, thank you! I am about to start watching but I guess if we approach the photography from the point of view of the visual order (I mean that's what painters seem to be doing when they use the photos to create a composition but that depends on the painters for sure ) - they can be a great slice of life to work from.
Moreover how are you supposed to paint , say, a hospital lobby or a crowded bar or a far away shed on a rainy day without having a photo of them ?
Anyway, just my 2 cents , I think you' ve already answered those in the video.
Have a good day everyone !
In the 'old days' everyone just went and did sketches of those places. How about under an umbrella. However, it is evident Gerome used photographic references just as you say.
@@PaulIngbretson old school is the best school - I'm going need to buy myself a raincoat then :)
Forgive my additional note here, please. I meant to mention it before.
In addition to other reasons not to paint from photographs, there is the matter of perspective. Among the more ambitious of you, some may wish to "do the math." In principle, however, it is a matter of original camera-to-subject distance and lens focal length (magnification factor) in relation to the size of the print of the image (magnification factor) and the viewer-to-print distance. In short, the reason a "telephoto" photo's perspective looks compressed, and a wide-angle (shorter-than-normal for the format) image's appears exaggerated, is not lens optics but perspective. Aide memoir is one thing; reliance another.