I really enjoyed the thread about manipulation and "saw" a similarity in
this post. If you really, truely want to see unmanipulated photos, go to a
big consumer lab and watch the snapshots roll out of the paper processor.
There's a great sense of the simultaneous nature of humanity but there
"ain't" much art in it.
Lamadoo
ps, John, are you talking about the flash pictures of fireworks?
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] shades
> Don't laugh too much. Many things are designed for the "lowest common
> denominator." The world is loaded with utterly clueless people about
> matters photographic. It's why P&S's and completely automagic
> Wunderziegeln are so popular. The bulk of the consumers *don't* want to
be
> bothered with having to know anything more than which general direction to
> point the thing. They expect the camera maker and processing lab to pick
> up the rest to make something useable out of what they point it at when
> they press the shutter release. In the U.S., the annual "worst nightmare"
> of consumer processing labs will occur five days from now on July 5th.
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