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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
if digital filmmaking becomes the norm, as it seems to be, then the old photographic journalistic quality of actual film will be gone too.
when it is as "easy" to create an image from the filmed elements as it is shown on 300 and on waking life, and other such, digitally produced movies, the question of what is real becomes important.
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I agree!! it is so easy to create boring monotnous digital photography.. In the same breath though surely it can be used as a tool to completely recreate worlds which in the past you might have only dramed of? Probably the biggest wrong doing in digital imagery is that it is over polished. Life is not like that.. I think it is hard to suspend disbelief and be pulled into a world when it appears too perfect and sharp. That is not the medium's fault though, but the artist.
The execution and display of photography is what kills it for the most part I think. Benig a scientific or documentation medium.. there are so many unwritten rules about the way you should view them. Photographs are NOT paintings you are so right.. so why restrict them the same way? (not you... a large portion of the industry in general)
I'm too passionate about it. But the feeling I get from a dark and eerie room, with a little ambient light in corners, and with 10 foot tall torn up Bill Henson imagery. It floors me emotionally.